ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old . The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sunday afternoon, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, lived most of their lives. The center said he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. As reaction poured in from around the world, President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and he lost a dear friend. Biden cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless and advocacy for the disadvantaged as an example for others. “To all of the young people in this nation and for anyone in search of what it means to live a life of purpose and meaning – the good life – study Jimmy Carter, a man of principle, faith, and humility,” Biden said in a statement. “He showed that we are a great nation because we are a good people – decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong.” Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. A moderate Democrat, Carter ran for president in 1976 as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad grin, effusive Baptist faith and technocratic plans for efficient government. His promise to never deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter said. Carter’s victory over Republican Gerald Ford, whose fortunes fell after pardoning Nixon, came amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over race, women’s rights and America’s role in the world. His achievements included brokering Mideast peace by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David for 13 days in 1978. But his coalition splintered under double-digit inflation and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His negotiations ultimately brought all the hostages home alive, but in a final insult, Iran didn’t release them until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, who had trounced him in the 1980 election. Humbled and back home in Georgia, Carter said his faith demanded that he keep doing whatever he could, for as long as he could, to try to make a difference. He and Rosalynn co-founded The Carter Center in 1982 and spent the next 40 years traveling the world as peacemakers, human rights advocates and champions of democracy and public health. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Carter helped ease nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiate cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, the center had monitored at least 113 elections around the world. Carter was determined to eradicate guinea worm infections as one of many health initiatives. Swinging hammers into their 90s, the Carters built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The common observation that he was better as an ex-president rankled Carter. His allies were pleased that he lived long enough to see biographers and historians revisit his presidency and declare it more impactful than many understood at the time. Propelled in 1976 by voters in Iowa and then across the South, Carter ran a no-frills campaign. Americans were captivated by the earnest engineer, and while an election-year Playboy interview drew snickers when he said he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times,” voters tired of political cynicism found it endearing. The first family set an informal tone in the White House, carrying their own luggage, trying to silence the Marine Band’s traditional “Hail to the Chief" and enrolling daughter, Amy, in public schools. Carter was lampooned for wearing a cardigan and urging Americans to turn down their thermostats. But Carter set the stage for an economic revival and sharply reduced America's dependence on foreign oil by deregulating the energy industry along with airlines, trains and trucking. He established the departments of Energy and Education, appointed record numbers of women and nonwhites to federal posts, preserved millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness and pardoned most Vietnam draft evaders. Emphasizing human rights , he ended most support for military dictators and took on bribery by multinational corporations by signing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He persuaded the Senate to ratify the Panama Canal treaties and normalized relations with China, an outgrowth of Nixon’s outreach to Beijing. But crippling turns in foreign affairs took their toll. When OPEC hiked crude prices, making drivers line up for gasoline as inflation spiked to 11%, Carter tried to encourage Americans to overcome “a crisis of confidence.” Many voters lost confidence in Carter instead after the infamous address that media dubbed his “malaise" speech, even though he never used that word. After Carter reluctantly agreed to admit the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979. Negotiations to quickly free the hostages broke down, and then eight Americans died when a top-secret military rescue attempt failed. Carter also had to reverse course on the SALT II nuclear arms treaty after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Though historians would later credit Carter's diplomatic efforts for hastening the end of the Cold war, Republicans labeled his soft power weak. Reagan’s “make America great again” appeals resonated, and he beat Carter in all but six states. Born Oct. 1, 1924, James Earl Carter Jr. married fellow Plains native Rosalynn Smith in 1946, the year he graduated from the Naval Academy. He brought his young family back to Plains after his father died, abandoning his Navy career, and they soon turned their ambitions to politics . Carter reached the state Senate in 1962. After rural white and Black voters elected him governor in 1970, he drew national attention by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Carter published more than 30 books and remained influential as his center turned its democracy advocacy onto U.S. politics, monitoring an audit of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. After a 2015 cancer diagnosis, Carter said he felt “perfectly at ease with whatever comes.” “I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said. “I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” Sanz is a former Associated Press reporter.Former US President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100 years old. “Our founder, former US President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the Carter Center said on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. At age 52, Carter was sworn in as president on January 20, 1977, after defeating President Gerald R. Ford in the 1976 general election. Carter left office on January 20, 1981, following his 1980 general election loss to Ronald Reagan. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The 39th president of the United States was a Georgia peanut farmer who sought to restore trust in government when he assumed the presidency in 1977 and then built a reputation for tireless work as a humanitarian. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Tributes poured in from around the world for the former US President on Sunday. US President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and he lost a dear friend. Biden cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless and advocacy for the disadvantaged as an example for others. “To all of the young people in this nation and for anyone in search of what it means to live a life of purpose and meaning – the good life – study Jimmy Carter, a man of principle, faith, and humility,” Biden said in a statement. “He showed that we are a great nation because we are a good people – decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong,” he added. Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said.45 vipph 。

North Korea will launch its "toughest" ever strategy to counter the United States , state media said Sunday, reporting on a key year-end party meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un . ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? India's car race: How far EVs went in 2024 Investing in 2025: Six wealth management trends to watch out for The nuclear-armed state held a five-day party meeting last week as part of a drive to chart the country's course for 2025, the official Korean Central News Agency reported in a lengthy English dispatch. "The US is the most reactionary state that regards anti-communism as its invariable state policy," the report said. It slammed growing ties between South Korea, the US and Japan, saying it had "expanded into a nuclear military bloc for aggression". It also said South Korea had "turned into an out-and-out anti-communist outpost of the US". 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In November 1973, a group of evangelicals met at the YMCA on Wabash Avenue and adopted the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. Echoing the themes of progressive evangelicalism from decades past, the declaration decried income inequality and militarism as well as the persistence of racism and hunger in an affluent society. The declaration also included a forthright embrace of women’s rights and gender equality. Roughly a year later, on Dec. 12, 1974, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president, drawing on many of those same themes, as well as his frequently repeated promise that he would never knowingly lie to the American people. He pledged his commitment to pursue racial reconciliation, health care reform, human rights, a reduction of nuclear weapons and a less imperial foreign policy. Carter’s outsider status, coupled with his evident probity, provided a tonic to an electorate weary of Watergate and Richard Nixon’s endless prevarications. On his way to the White House, Carter effectively rid his party — and the nation — of its most pugnacious segregationist, George Wallace of Alabama , by beating Wallace in the Florida Democratic primary. He also benefited from a resurgence of progressive evangelicalism in the 1970s, the movement that takes seriously Jesus’ words to care for “the least of these.” In earlier decades of American history, progressive evangelicalism had animated various movements of social reform, including the abolition of slavery (among evangelicals in the North), public education, prison reform and advocacy for women’s rights. Many evangelicals were involved in peace movements, and some evangelicals even doubted the morality of capitalism because it elevated avarice over altruism and therefore ran counter to the teachings of Jesus. Charles Grandison Finney, the most famous and influential evangelical of the 19th century, argued that capitalism “recognizes only the love of self” and “the rules by which business is done in the world, are directly opposite to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the spirit he exhibited.” The man of business, by contrast, lives by the maxim: “Look out for number one.” Carter’s election represented the high point in the resurgence of progressive evangelicalism in the 20th century, and the new president sought to govern according to those principles. His first official act as president was to pardon Vietnam-era draft resisters, thereby helping bring that sorry chapter in American life to a close. He renegotiated the Panama Canal treaties, and in so doing signaled an attenuation of American colonialism, especially to the countries of Latin America. He advanced peace in the Middle East far beyond anything accomplished by his predecessors (or his successors). He recalibrated foreign policy away from a reflexive Cold War dualism and toward an emphasis on human rights. On domestic matters, Carter sought to limit the incidence of abortion, and he is still regarded by many as the nation’s greatest environmental president ever. So why would evangelicals, who helped propel Carter to the presidency in 1976, turn against him four years later? Why would they reject one of their own, a born-again evangelical Christian, in favor of a divorced and remarried former actor who, as governor of California, had signed into law the most liberal abortion bill in the nation? Evangelicalism itself was deeply divided in the 1970s. Carter’s understanding of the faith, shaped by progressive evangelicalism, pushed him toward the left of the political spectrum, whereas many white, Northern evangelicals, following the lead of Billy Graham, had gravitated toward the Republican Party. Nixon’s damage to the Republican brand had briefly altered that calculus in the mid-1970s, and Carter harvested a far greater percentage of evangelical votes than any of his Democratic predecessors. Jimmy Carter Library President Jimmy Carter waves from Air Force One in May 1977. Frank Hanes / Chicago Tribune As Jimmy Carter greets nuns in front of Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church, Mayor Richard J. Daley stays in the background (upper right) on Oct. 11 1976. The Democratic presidential candidate attended Mass at the church and later marched in the Columbus Day parade on State Street. Bob Fila/Chicago Tribune Jimmy Carter campaigns at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Chicago in 1976. Gerald West/Chicago Tribune President Jimmy Carter leaves Mayor Michael Bilandic's Bridgeport home on Nov. 3, 1978, in Chicago. (Gerald West/Chicago Tribune) BOB DAUGHERTY / AP President Jimmy Carter waves from the roof of his car along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky., July 31, 1979. Thomas J. O'Halloran Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter speaks to crowd at campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 1976. AP Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn in 1970. Mao, AP College student Chuck McManis watches President Jimmy Carter's nationally televised energy speech from a service station in Los Angeles in 1979. Thomas J. O'Halloran Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter holds an informal press conference aboard "Peanut One" Campaign Airplane on Campaign Trip on Sept. 11, 1976. Ben Gray/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution President Jimmy Carter shakes hands as he arrives at a birthday party for his wife Rosalynn in 2015 in Plains, Georgia. Jewel Samad, AFP-Getty Images President Barack Obama, former President Jimmy Carter, first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 2013. Ed Reinke, AP Former President Jimmy Carter uses a hand saw to even an edge as he works on a Habitat for Humanity home in Pikeville, Ky., in 1997. AP President Jimmy Carter, left, bows his head during a prayer service in 1979 at Washington National Cathedral for the American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. AP Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, embrace as President Jimmy Carter looks on during a White House announcement of a Middle East peace agreement in 1978. Alex Wong, Getty Images President Barack Obama, from left, former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter attend the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas in 2013. AP President Jimmy Carter is joined by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the ceremony in 1979 for the Camp David Accords. UPI President Jimmy Carter sits in front of the fireplace in the White House Library to deliver his "fireside chat" to the nation in February 1977. Phil Skinner / AP Former President Jimmy Carter talks about his cancer diagnosis during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Aug. 20, 2015. Chicago Tribune In his first visit to Chicago since becoming president, Jimmy Carter speaks at a 1978 fundraiser, flanked by Cook County Board President George Dunne, left, and Mayor Michael Bilandec. AP Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, from left, President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meet for the first time at Camp David, Md., in 1978. Wes Pope/Chicago Tribune Former president Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalyn Carter, left, help administer a praziquantel pill to a child during a visit to Nasarawa, Nigeria on February 15, 2007. A single dose can reverse up to 90% of schistosomiasis' damage within six months. Even so, few Nigerians can afford the cost. AP President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy walk on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day in 1977. Carter was sworn in as the nations's 39th president. Globe Photos / TNS A July 1976 picture of Jimmy Carter, right, and Walter Mondale. AP President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy greet Pope John Paul II at the White House in Washington on Oct. 6, 1979. Eppie Lederer, Chicago Tribune Ann Landers with President Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1977. Hugh Grannum, Detroit Free Press Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter share a private moment durinng a symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Nov. 14, 1984. Carl Hugare / Chicago Tribune President Jimmy Carter acknowledges the cheers of fellow Democrats during a rally at the Niles East High School gymnasium in 1978. UPI President Jimmy Carter sits on the South Lawn of the White House as he and first lady Rosalynn Carter, second from left, and other guests listen during a jazz festival in 1978. Gregory Bull, AP Former President Jimmy Carter visits with schoolchildren in 2002 in Las Guasimas, Cuba. Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune Former President Jimmy Carter addresses the opening session of the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. AP Jimmy Carter at age 13, in 1938. Location unknown. John Amis / AP Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga., Nov. 3, 2019. (John Amis/AP) AP Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter talks with his brother Billy at the Carter family peanut warehouse in 1976. Dick Drew, AP Jimmy Carter with New York Mayor Ed Koch at a town meeting at Queen's College in 1979. Chicago Tribune Presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter gets a salami and a loaf of rye during a visit to Ashkenaz Restaurant in Chicago in March 1976. John Duricka, AP President Jimmy Carter and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton enjoy a chuckle during a rally for Carter on Oct. 22, 1980, in Texarkana, Texas. Barry Thumma, AP President Jimmy Carter pauses to kiss first lady Rosalynn Carter as he boards a helicopter for the trip from the White House in Washington to Camp David in 1979. AP Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shake hands after reaching an accord in 1978 at the Camp David summit. Cristobal Herrera, AP Cuban President Fidel Castro points upward as former President Jimmy Carter looks on upon Carter's arrival to Havana in 2002. AP Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter gives an informal news conference in Los Angeles during a 1976 campaign tour. AP President Jimmy Carter smiles as he walks with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Austria before signing the SALT II nuclear treaty in 1979. Barry Thumma, AP President Jimmy Carter carries a watermelon on his shoulder at his Plains, Ga., farm in August 1977 during a vacation. Bernat Armangue, AP Former President Jimmy Carter participates in a weekly protest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in 2010. AP President Jimmy Carter, left, and Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, shake hands Oct. 28, 1980, in Cleveland, before debating before a nationwide television audience. AP President Jimmy Carter prepares to make a national television address from the White House in 1980 on the failed mission to rescue the Iran hostages. AP Former President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Chief of Protocol Leonore Annenberg, and Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford aboard an Air Force jet carrying them to the funeral of Anwar Sadat in 1981. Marion S. Trikosko U.S. President Jimmy Carter during Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to the White House, Washington, D.C., April 5, 1977. John Bazemore/AP Former President Jimmy Carter reacts as his wife Rosalynn Carter speaks during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Georgia. Candice C. Cusic, Chicago Tribune Former President Jimmy Carter, after dedicating the Gift of Sight statue, left, at Lions Clubs International Headquarters in Oak Brook in 2009. AP Jimmy Carter, Democratic candidate for president, is joined by his daughter, Amy, at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Texas on Nov. 1, 1976. Charles Kelly, AP Former Georgia state Sen. Jimmy Carter, his wife, Rosalynn, and daughter Amy, after announcing his candidacy for governor in 1970. Marion S. Trikosko U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the White House during a fireside chat on the Panama Canal Treaty in Washington. AP President Jimmy Carter, first lady Rosalynn Carter and daughter Amy enjoy the first of seven inaugural balls in Washington in January 1977. BOB DAUGHERTY / Associated Press Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 11, 2002, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. AP President Jimmy Carter is interviewed in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 24, 1977. Pete Souza, The White House President Barack Obama listens to former President Jimmy Carter during a reception in the Yellow Oval Room in the White House in 2011. Pete Souza, Chicago Tribune Former President Jimmy Carter talks with former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton before the funeral ceremony for former President Gerald R. Ford at Washington National Cathedral in 2007. SUZANNE PLUNKETT / AP Former President and first lady Jimmy and Roselynn Carter wave to the crowd after a tribute to the former president at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Aug. 14, 2000. SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter arrive for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2017. Marion S. Trikosko U.S. President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter dance at a White House Congressional Ball on Dec. 13, 1978. Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, say goodbye to the audience after Carter's speech at the opening session of the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Young people representing ethnic communities in Chicago greet President Jimmy Carter at O'Hare International Airport after Mayor Jane Byrne welcomed him to the city in 1979. Bob Daugherty, AP Outgoing President Jimmy Carter, right, and wife Rosalynn look on as Ronald Reagan takes the presidential oath of office in 1981. Elise Amendola / AP Former President Jimmy Carter speaks during a forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Nov. 20, 2014. Suzanne Vlamis, AP President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking to the White House with his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter, Amy, following his inauguration in 1977. PhotoQuest / Getty Images Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and Mayor Richard J. Daley at the Illinois State Democratic Convention in Chicago on Sept. 9, 1976. AP President Jimmy Carter, center left, and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, center right, wave to the waiting crowd outside the U.S. Embassy after both heads of state finished their first round of talks prior to the Salt II Treaty signing, June 16, 1979, in Vienna, Austria. ERLAND AAS / Associated Press Nobel Peace Prize winner, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and his wife Rosalyn, greets a torchlight procession from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo, prior to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's Banquet, Dec.10, 2002. AP President Jimmy Carter meets with his economic advisers in the White House on April 27, 1977. AP President Jimmy Carter concedes defeat in the presidential election in Washington, D.C., in 1980. Standing with Carter is his wife, Rosalynn, and daughter, Amy. AP President-elect Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, wipe tears from their eyes after returning to their hometown in Plains, Ga., on Nov. 3, 1976. President Jimmy Carter waves from Air Force One in May 1977. Conservatives, however, were eager to regain their footing after the disastrous Nixon presidency, and several savvy political operatives conspired to do so. Paul Weyrich, the architect of the religious right, had long recognized the political potential of evangelical voters. If he could mobilize them, he reasoned, he could reshape the political landscape. By Weyrich’s own account, he tried various issues over the years to lure conservative evangelicals into the political arena — abortion, pornography, school prayer, the proposed Equal Rights Amendment — but nothing worked. By the mid-1970s, however, he finally found the issue that would energize them: the attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to deny tax exemption to institutions that engaged in racial discrimination. This caught the attention of officials at Bob Jones University and Jerry Falwell , who had opened his own segregation academy in 1967. They disingenuously decried government interference into religious matters, neglecting to mention that tax exemption is a form of public subsidy, and then cannily shifted their rhetoric away from the defense of racial segregation toward opposition to abortion, hitherto a “Catholic issue.” What followed was the mass mobilization of white evangelicals into a movement known as the religious right. Their support for Reagan in 1980 initiated a decadeslong alliance with the far-right precincts of the Republican Party that culminated in overwhelming support for Donald Trump. Although progressive evangelicals remain active in American life, the heyday of progressive evangelicalism, marked by the Chicago declaration and Carter’s presidency, came tragically to a close in 1980. Throughout his remarkable post-presidency, however, Carter enlarged the sphere of his progressive activism — pursuing peace, ensuring democratic elections, eradicating tropical diseases — beyond the White House to the entire world. Randall Balmer is the John Phillips professor in religion at Dartmouth College and is the author of “ Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter ” and “ Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right .”Getting whipped by a downtrodden Oklahoma squad came back to haunt Alabama. So did a historic loss to Vanderbilt. That's because the Crimson Tide (9-3) were passed over for the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff when the selections were announced on Sunday. Alabama appeared in good shape to make the playoffs until visiting the Sooners and losing 24-3 on Nov. 23. Oklahoma finished the regular season with a 6-6 mark. SMU (11-2) earned the final at-large spot despite losing to Clemson 34-31 in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game on Saturday night. "I think it's the right decision," Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee told CBS Sports said. "... We didn't ever have a bad loss." Selection committee chairman Warde Manuel said it was a tough choice to take the Mustangs over the Crimson Tide. "We looked at the number of wins Alabama had against ranked opponents," Manuel, the Michigan athletic director, told ESPN. "We looked at SMU's schedule and they were undefeated in conference. Their losses were to ranked teams. "We also looked at Alabama's losses to unranked teams. It was quite a debate. We value strength of schedule and that's why Alabama as a three-loss team is ranked ahead of teams that have two losses." SMU's loss to then-No. 17 Clemson came on a last-second field goal in Saturday night's Atlantic Coast Conference title game. The Mustangs also lost 18-15 at BYU on Sept. 6. SMU beat then-No. 22 Louisville on the road and then-No. 18 Pitt in Dallas. "Losing on a last-second field goal ... we felt SMU still had the nod over Alabama," Manuel said of the Mustangs' loss to Clemson. "... It's just looking at the entire body of work over both teams." Alabama's other two losses included the shocking 40-35 stumble at Vanderbilt on Oct. 5 that marked the Commodores' first-ever win over a No. 1-ranked team. The Crimson Tide also lost 24-17 to then-No. 11 Tennessee on Oct. 19. The Crimson Tide posted three ranked victories, beating then-No. 2 Georgia, then-No. 21 Missouri and then-No. 15 LSU. Alabama will face Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa on Dec. 31. It is a rematch from last season when the Wolverines defeated the Crimson Tide 27-20 in the College Football Playoff semifinal game at the Rose Bowl. The second team out was No. 13 Miami (10-2), which saw its chances plummet by losing two of its last three regular-season games. The Hurricanes, who started 9-0, lost 28-23 to host Georgia Tech on Nov. 9 and completed the regular season with a 42-38 road loss against Syracuse. Miami didn't play a Top 25 team this season. Instead of navigating the playoff field, Miami will face No. 18 Iowa State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando on Dec. 28. "Everyone that doesn't get in feels disappointment," Miami coach Mario Cristobal said of being passed over. "We will have the onus of just doing better. Go forward and have the opportunity to get better. ... "We have a ton to play for and we'll thankful for the opportunity." SMU plays No. 6 Penn State in its first-round playoff game on Nov. 21. "We're excited about the challenge and the opportunity to prove that the committee made the right decision," Lashlee said. --Field Level Media

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