TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – Mississippi State and Alabama are the only Southeastern Conference teams that still control their fates in the playoff scramble.
Now, they play each other.
In a Western Division where teams have been picking each other one by one, the top-ranked Bulldogs and No. 4 Crimson Tide meet Saturday in the latest potential playoff elimination game.
Gone are onetime top 10 teams LSU and Texas A&M from the playoff conversation. No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Mississippi’s hopes are on dwindling. All the Tide and Bulldogs have to do is keep winning.
Tide quarterback Blake Sims says, “It’s just the SEC West.”