NFL scouts want to watch good-on-good when it comes to evaluating prospects. The tape against the best competition carries a heavier emphasis throughout the progress, as it should. As such, conference championship games leading into the College Football Playoff are an excellent indicator of who a player is when the pressure is turned up and the opponent is of a higher quality.

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Ty Simpson fielded a question about how healthy he is heading into the College Football Playoff where Alabama is set to play Oklahoma in the first round.