Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz look ahead to this Saturday's clash of SEC foes - each with one loss on the season - and discuss the implications for both teams, including why they'll both be rooting for Texas in another monster matchup this weekend. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Like if we're the college football playoff committee, we're trying to figure out are we putting Tennessee in or are we putting Notre Dame?

And by the time this whole thing is said and done, are you putting Tennessee in or are you putting Notre Dame in?

I disagree, I think, is it Tennessee or is it Alabama?

So you're not, you're not sold on Pama.

I'm not sold on Pama.

Hell, no, I'm not sold on Bama.

Did you just see Alabama?

Barely squeak by South Carolina?

That's home.

But I, I haven't, I'm not going to write Alabama in the playoff.

I think that this game coming up this weekend Alabama goes on the road to Tennessee.

I think that's massive in terms of the playoff implications.

I'm not going to say the loser is out of contention, but I think that the winner has the fast track to getting one of the three or four spots for the SEC.

Uh OK.

But here's the thing last week when we talked about, you know, we talked about Ole Miss LSU, you said something there that I thought was really important.

Nobody was going to qualify for the college football playoff, but somebody was gonna get disqualified from the college football playoff.

I don't know, as much as I would love to see, you know, total chaos.

You know, me, I'm an agent of chaos.

I have no favorite teams.

You pick up your second loss, whether you're Alabama or you're Tennessee, you pick up your second loss.

I don't know that you can't come back from that.

And, and frankly, if we're really talking about must win.

If you're Georgia and you pick up your second loss, man, I think the, the, the heavy lift out of two is so wild to me that I do believe that the losers of those two key games this weekend might be looking at elimination very well could be.

And I think if you're in Alabama or a Tennessee fan, you are rooting like hell for Texas to win that game because if you have a one lost Georgia team and a one lost Texas team, that's probably your sec championship game just assuming that both of those teams take care of business the, the rest of the way.

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