If I'm not mistaken, the committee ran simulations on prior years and Alabama was included for the 2011 year.
The problem with this is multi-fold. First, it's easy to say how it would have turned out 'if' one voted 'after the fact' - there is simply no way to know this is true. Secondly, this assumes these folks who couldn't see the committee was going to drop TCU for Ohio State knew what the committee would do in every circumstance.
I'm not quite as pessimistic as ALA2262 is with a 'they'll never do it' mentality, but I think he's MOSTLY correct. 2011 is the kind of circumstance where I can see it happening, but you have to look at the actual final BCS results for the regular season:
1) LSU - nobody argued about LSU in any way; but what if LSU lost to UGA in the SECCG? Does a division championship count as 'championships won?' SEC champions
2) Alabama - lost to LSU but SOS was not all that phenomenal that year
3) Okie State - Big 12 champions and lost to Iowa St
4) Stanford - only lost to Oregon, no championship
5) Oregon - two losses (LSU, USC), PAC 10 champions
6) Arkansas - two 24-point losses to LSU and Alabama, third place in their own division
7) Boise St - home loss to TCU, WAC champions, absolutely awful SOS
8) Kansas St - Big 12 runners up, got killed by OU, lost to Okie St
9) South Carolina - two losses to Arky and Auburn....and didn't even win the division
10) Wisconsin - Big Ten champions, two losses to Mich St and Ohio St
So your conference champions were ranked 1 (no need for a committee there), 3, 5, and 7 - LSU, Okie St, Oregon, and Boise. Your next conference champion was rated TENTH and had two losses.
So, yes, I can see Alabama making it under such a system but ONE GAME makes all the difference in the world.
What if Arkansas had beaten LSU by 24? Or what if UGA - with TWO LOSSES, one of them to Boise St - had beaten LSU by even a single point?
My point being this: if LSU had had even ONE loss in a four-team scenario, it is highly unlikely Alabama goes.
If LSU had lost to Oregon, then LSU and Oregon would have gone because the Ducks would have had only one loss and been conference champions.
If LSU had lost to Arkansas, who would have played UGA? Oh.....and if UGA had beaten LSU and been a two-loss SEC champion, how do you put them in over Boise State, who manhandled the Bulldogs in the season opener?
You have to remember that what made that entire scenario aside from the SEC dominance in the BCSNCG was the fact Oregon had played LSU, which meant the old 'we don't want a rematch' mantra couldn't hold up. It was ASSUMED that after Oregon beat Stanford, they were home free, just like it was ASSUMED that once Okie State took care of K-State, they, too, were home free.
That's why there are only TWO scenarios I can see two SEC teams in the game:
1) 2009, when Florida and Alabama were both unbeaten division winners (but that wouldn't have happened that year, either, because there were still four unbeatens after that game)
2) 2011
In other words - for this to happen at least ONE of the SEC teams HAS to be undefeated entering the SECCG. It'll never happen otherwise.