In the evening, No. 10 Alabama got all it could handle from Auburn in the Iron Bowl before escaping with a win and keeping its College Football Playoff hopes alive. The Crimson Tide will meet Georgia in the SEC title game next weekend. Here's how everything played out on the final Saturday of the regular season:

The College Football Playoff got off to an early start for Alabama football on Saturday, and it won its first-round game against archrival Auburn, 27-20.

The only other coach in Alabama history to win his first game at Auburn was Dennis Franchione in 2001.