Alabama football didn’t make the 12-team College Football Playoff field, dropping out of the bracket in favor of SMU. Still, the Crimson Tide has another game left on the schedule.

Kalen DeBoer’s team will play in the ReliaQuest Bowl, the game officially announced. Brett McMurphy of the Action Network first reported the news Sunday after the CFP selection committee released the playoff bracket.

The Citrus Bowl got its first pick of the non-playoff SEC team, selecting South Carolina to face Illinois in Orlando.

After that, the SEC chose its representative for six games, including the ReliaQuest Bowl. The game will be played Dec. 31.

Alabama will play Michigan in the game, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.. The Wolverines enter the bowl with a 7-5 record, 5-4 in Big Ten play.

UM beat Alabama in last year’s Rose Bowl, a CFP semifinal. The Wolverines went on to win the national title.

The Crimson Tide was in the running for a playoff spot until the very end. Alabama would likely have been in had SMU beaten Clemson in the ACC championship game, or been blown out by the Tigers.

Instead, the Mustangs fought back from a large deficit, only losing on a last-second field goal. The effort was enough to push them into the playoff.

“We looked at the number of wins Alabama had against ranked opponents,” CFP selection chair Warde Manuel said on the ESPN . “We looked at SMU’s schedule. They were undefeated in-conference. Their losses were to ranked teams. But we also looked at Alabama’s losses to unranked teams. It was quite a debate.”

The ReliaQuest Bowl is scheduled for 11 a.m. CT Dec. 31 in Tampa. It will be aired on ESPN.