There is a clean path of course and then there is mayhem with a couple upsets/outcomes.
The mayhem would persist, and perhaps worsen, if we had 8 teams involved.
Ohio State has that one really ugly loss, which is obviously a knock, and Bama as noted has no particularly impressive wins, LSU and Miss State are "so-so" wins I suppose, but the MSU outcome was close of course. FSU was probably a decent team when they played. I don't see a real clear choice is OSU is 11-2 and Bama is 11-1 for the final slot.
And of course IF OSU is selected and does poorly in the first round Bama fans will claim the usual.
My hope for the Dawgs this year was to win the East and make an NY6 bowl while beating Florida. That looks assured at this point, so yay, gravy time.
If UGA can clean up their mistakes with Auburn they should compete, as they did last time early until their mistakes got the best of them in a hurry. They also need to pass on first down.