Alabama football and much of the SEC is in a log jam. In the latest College Football Playoff rankings, released Tuesday evening, the Crimson Tide is ranked fifth, second in the SEC to Texas, which checked in at No. 3.

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Alabama has appeared in the SEC Championship Game more times than any other team since the game’s inception in 1992. The Crimson Tide have a slight lead over the Florida Gators in that category with 15 trips to Atlanta — and previously Birmingham’s Legion Field — to the Gators’ 13.

Despite a two-score loss at home to the Bulldogs in October, Texas remains far above Georgia in the newest College Football Playoff rankings — calling into question just what the selection committee is looking at.

If the season ended today, the Georgia Bulldogs would be the No. 11 seed in the College Football Playoff bracket. Georgia would have to go on the road to play the No. 6 Penn State Nittany Lions in the first-round of the playoff.