OU football travels to face Alabama on Saturday. Can the Sooners stay alive in the College Football Playoff race? Here are our predictions.

Alabama and Oklahoma square off Saturday in Tuscaloosa. Here is who wins according to a College Football 26 simulation.

Both teams enter the game with aspirations for the College Football Playoff. Last season, Oklahoma ended Alabama’s chances of making the playoff. At that time, Alabama was ranked No. 7, while Oklahoma was trying to become bowl eligible. The Sooners won 24-3 at home, making this a revenge game for the Crimson Tide.

A pair of two-loss SEC teams clinging to College Football Playoff hopes will hit the road to face top-five opponents in critical Week 11 showdowns. Those games -- along with several other high-profile matchups -- should help thin out the CFP bubble as the regular season enters its home stretch.

Typically, you’ll see cartoonish caricatures of Big Al, Bear Bryant, Nick Saban, and now Kalen DeBoer and other current Crimson Tide stars, likely Ty Simpson and Ryan Williams. UA sororities always deliver the goods, getting even more spectacular each year, with intensely pomped designs of famous Alabama coaches, players, moments and more.

As he typically does, Nick Saban sported a slick suit and joined the Pat McAfee Show Friday afternoon live from Saturday's College GameDay location, Heinz Field

There's still a lot of football to be played, in other words. Week 12 gives us a couple of games pitting new guard versus old guard in SEC country, plus high-leverage contests in Pittsburgh, New Orleans and Harrisonburg, Virginia. Here's everything you need to follow on a big-as-ever mid-November Saturday.

Joel Klatt previews Week 12 of the college football season and makes picks for Texas-Georgia, Oklahoma-Alabama and more.

Alabama football doesn’t need outside help to make the College Football Playoff. Win out and the Crimson Tide is not only in the field, but also likely getting a first-round bye. But winning out is far from guaranteed.