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2017 Iron Bowl · Auburn 26, Alabama 14
Auburn vs. Alabama November 25, 2017 · Jordan-Hare Stadium · AuburnThe regular-season game that should have ended Alabama's playoff hopes — and the season that proved the committee was going to weight the SEC heavier than the math said.
Auburn knocks UA out of the SEC title game · Stidham 7-of-7 in 4Q
Auburn beat Alabama 26-14 at Jordan-Hare in late November 2017, knocking the Tide out of the SEC Championship and into a one-loss outside-looking-in position the committee had to navigate. The committee put a one-loss SEC team that hadn't won its conference into the Playoff anyway, and Alabama responded by beating Clemson in the Sugar Bowl semifinal and Georgia in the title game. The 2017 Iron Bowl is the bookmark for the era's most consequential committee decision and the fact-pattern that every conference-title-game advocate has cited since.
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