ESPN's Paul Finebaum, Heather Dinich Set Number Of SEC Teams To Make 12-Team Playoff

During ESPN's "Get Up" on Tuesday morning, College Football analysts Paul Finebaum and Heather Dinich joined the show and were asked if the SEC would get four or more teams in the College Football Playoff.


Current projections only have three SEC squads making the 12-team playoff (Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee), and Dinich and Finebaum also think that will be the case. Per SDS:

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“Don’t believe it,” said Dinich. “I have 3 SEC teams in my current bracket and that’s Texas, Georgia and Tennessee. Alabama and Ole Miss are out after their losses, but it’s possible they could work their way back in.”

Dinich did clarify a distinction that Alabama is currently her No. 12 team in the rankings. However, the final bracket will need to account for the 5th-highest-ranked conference champion.

“Arizona State, you’ll see the 12-seed (in my bracket projection), bumps out Alabama,” Dinich admitted. “I had Alabama as my No. 12 ranked team, but they would get bumped out for the 5th-ranked conference champion which, crazy, would be Arizona State.”


Meanwhile, Finebaum simply admitted that the SEC will take a hit this season with the late-year performances of some of the key contenders:

“The number is 3 Greenie because Alabama, in my mind, played its way out. Ole Miss did the same thing,” said Finebaum. “You can argue how great the league is, and I do that on a daily basis, but this time around, the SEC is going to take a hit.”

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