CHAOS SATURDAY: Alabama Gets Trounced by Oklahoma To Throw the CFP Into Pandemonium

If you thought Chaos Saturday was going to end with merely one SEC road favorite squandering its College Football Playoff hopes, you don't know Chaos Saturday very well. Alabama followed up Ole Miss's banana peel slip in Gainesville by going into Norman, Oklahoma and laying about as big of an egg as a Top 10 team can. The Tide lost by three touchdowns and Oklahoma came away with nothing on three possessions inside Bama's 30-yard line in the first half. It should have been much worse.

They were able to mask it for the majority of the season, but we finally saw Saban-less Alabama tonight. The 2018 national title game against Clemson is the only other time in recent memory Bama has been dominated like it was on Saturday night — and that's quite a bit different than being a 14-point favorite against a 5-5 team. I don't think Alabama is going to fall off a cliff anytime soon, but the Tide is certainly now prone to the dangers of the SEC that it has been immune to for the last two decades.

For all the consternation we've been having the last few weeks about Playoff-worthy teams potentially being left out of the field, it seems Chaos Saturday may have worked things out too much to the point that I'm not even sure who the 12th team in the field would be right now. Tennessee will take Ole Miss's spot if the Vols take care of business against Vanderbilt next week, but if chalk holds, that last spot is truly up for grabs. Does a win over South Carolina do enough to bring Clemson back from the dead? Are Boise State and Tulane going to make it two Group of Five teams in the field? And assuming there's only one spot available is if Indiana remains in the field. It seems like we're going to have a good bit of mystery heading into Selection Sunday in a couple weeks.

What a Saturday. Never take one of these for granted.