If they didn’t take Alabama I’d think they would have a hard time taking Georgia then. How do you leave out a 1 loss SEC champion yet take the 1 loss team they just beat?
But how can you take the one loss SEC champion and leave out the one loss Big 12 champion that beat them?
If that's the way that it plays out the pecking order has got to be Texas, Alabama, Georgia. It simply has to be, or else you are telling teams that even if you schedule good opponents and beat them that it doesn't make any difference if you don't have the right name on your jerseys.