Kirk Herbstreit sees the SEC extending its current streak of national championships. Herbstreit, however, does not like Georgia to 3-peat.

Herbstreit is going with Alabama as his pick to win the final 4-team College Football Playoff. The ESPN analyst shared his Playoff picks during Saturday’s “College GameDay.”

Herbstreit has Alabama playing Michigan in the CFP semifinals. In the other semifinal, Herbstreit predicts a rematch of last year’s Georgia-Ohio State thriller. This time, however, Herbstreit has the Buckeyes coming out on top.

Alabama played Ohio State for the 2020 national championship in Miami, winning 52-24. Herbstreit likes the Crimson Tide to beat the Buckeyes again in January, which would make it 8 national championships for Nick Saban, including 7 in his UA tenure.

While Herbstreit has Alabama winning it all this fall, College GameDay co-host Desmond Howard went a different angle. The Michigan alum had the Wolverines making it to the Playoff alongside Alabama, Texas and Florida State in the field of 4. Howard also went with Michigan to beat the Crimson Tide for Jim Harbaugh’s first national title in Ann Arbor.

Both Ohio State and Michigan once again have a solid chance of making it to the Playoff and enter the season with the best Big Ten Championship odds. The two teams will once again face off in The Game to cap the regular season in a matchup likely to feature postseason ramifications.

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