All Bama has to do is take care of their business and not worry about anything else at this point. We are in PRIME position in the polls IMO at #7. Ohio State still has to play Michigan State which will eliminate one of them. TCU and Baylor still have to meet which will eliminate one of those two. Bama plays LSU in two weeks which should put us at #4 in the polls which should ensure us a position in the NCAA playoffs again this year... As I said, as long as we take care of position we should be golden...
I am 90% with you on this, accept I am less sanguine about affairs in the
big10. Because MSUn and tOSU are both in the top 4, the loser might not fall out of the top 4. Now if Mich and MSUn both beat OSU, then OSU is definitely out.
Also, there are 1-loss and 0-loss teams right around us (OkSt Domers, Stanford) that will have a chance to impress in the home stretch too.
At this point, no one we have beat is ranked. The only game the rankings help us with is the quality loss to OleMiss. Ironically, we need them to both lose and win. But we need them to lose more so we can chalk a SECCG win over a ranked UF.
All this assumes we win out and if we don't of course none of this matters one little bit.