Despite Alabama football ending its non-conference schedule Saturday against Mercer, the Tide path to the SEC championship became much clearer.

Much of the week has been spent pouring over SEC tiebreaker rules and trying to apply them to the season's remaining regular season games. Before Saturday's slate of games, one very realistic scenario had an eight-team first place SEC tie going down.

After Georgia's 14-point win over Tennessee on Saturday, Alabama is in great position to make the SEC Championship Game. All the Crimson Tide need in the next two weeks is to win out versus Auburn and Oklahoma,