Alabama is carrying the SEC flag from Tuscaloosa to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on New Year's Eve as the top-ranked team in the College Football Playoff.

The rest of the conference, though, is a hot mess.

Alabama is the only team with fewer than four losses, eight-win teams Texas A&M and Tennessee are led by coaches in Kevin Sumlin and Butch Jones, respectively, who are on the hot seat, and nobody seemed to want to get a firm hold on the Sugar Bowl down the stretch.

Is coaching the issue? That question and more are answered in this edition of SEC Q&A.

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