Alabama football and its fans felt slighted after not making the College Football Playoff as a 9-3 SEC team, despite ugly losses to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt during the season. They were

No. 11 Alabama and Michigan are set to face off Tuesday in the ReliaQuest Bowl, pitting two of college football's most storied programs against one another in an intriguing postseason matchup. It's also a rematch of the 2023 College Football Playoff semifinal,

TAMPA, Fla. — No one expected Michigan football to come into Raymond James Stadium and upset the vaunted Alabama Crimson Tide. However, the Wolverines took the Jan. 1 game against Alabama and returned the favor again on Dec. 31 to close out the bookended calendar year.