Paul Finebaum waves white flag on Alabama, abandons College Football Playoff take

The long wait is over folks as Paul Finebaum has finally waved the white flag regarding his Alabama support. The longtime ESPN and SEC host stumped for the Crimson Tide to get into the College Football Playoff this season.

Especially when Alabama was left out, Finebaum screamed from the rooftops. But with 2025 finally upon us, Finebaum decided to make a resolution. He surrendered!

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“I led the Alabama parade to get them into the playoffs,” Finebaum said on Get Up. “You know that I stood on every building, especially on this show, and on the first day of the new year, I’m surrendering. I am waving the white flag.”

Paul Finebaum: "I led the Alabama parade to get them into the playoffs… on the first day of the new year, I'm surrendering. I am waiving the white flag. Forget Alabama!" pic.twitter.com/FfKCTlgcFd

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Some of the takes from Finebaum were admirable, when it came to Alabama. Heck, he took shots at the CFP committee upon the final rankings release.

“They’re being spun non-stop, even though they say they’re not,” Finebaum said of the committee in early December. “There’s all kinds of tributaries that go into that room and all kinds of people that represent other people, and I also think they thought about one more thing that was even more important than the hangover.

“They thought about if they give this to Alabama, yeah the hue and cry nationally is going to be how come Alabama got in, poor SMU. And on top of that, they would have almost been issuing a Supreme Court edict rendering these conference championship games null and void. And the commissioners really can’t afford that, even the Southeastern Conference commissioner who lost out today. And I think that’s what this was really all about.”

But after Alabama’s disappointing performance against Michigan, the white flag came out and he finally bowed down to a defeat. It’s okay “Pawl,” we all can’t win them all.