Rapid Reaction: Perfection! Alabama dominates Ohio State to win 18th national championship, 6th under Saban
1925, 1926, 1930, 1934, 1941, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017…
2020.
It’s time to build another wing onto the Bryant Museum.
The top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide won the program’s 18th national championship — and the 6th title in 14 dominant seasons under Nick Saban — by overwhelming the No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes 52-24 in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium.
Alabama capped its 13-0 season — the Tide’s 11th unbeaten/untied season in 128 years and 2nd in Saban’s unprecedented era — in grand style in Miami Gardens. Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith ended his legendary Alabama career in much the same way he burst on the national scene, catching 12 passes for 215 yards and 3 touchdowns — all in the 1st half.
Tide quarterback Mac Jones, who finished 3rd in the Heisman voting, finished with a CFP-record 464 yards and record-tying 5 TD passes. And running back Najee Harris? The multi-purpose star who was 5th for the Heisman completed his storied collegiate career with 79 rushing yards and 3 total TDs.
Alabama’s 52 points broke the Playoff-era national championship game record for most points in a game, eclipsing its record of 45 set against Clemson in the 2015 title game.
Saban’s 6th crown in Tuscaloosa draws him even with legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul W. Bryant — who led his alma mater to 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978 and 1979 titles. Adding Saban’s 2003 BCS national title at LSU, the 69-year-old coach surpasses the storied Bryant as the coach with the most total national championships of all time with 7 overall. Only 1 other active coach has multiple national titles — Dabo Swinney at Clemson in 2016 and 2018.
The Crimson Tide, who entered the game scoring at least 35 points in 25 straight games and at 48.2 points per game was 2nd nationally only to Kent State’s 49.8 points per game over 4 games, racked up more than 600 yards of total offense on the Big Ten champs. Alabama piled up 389 of those yards in a dominant 1st half that saw Jones go 25-of-30 for 342 yards and 4 touchdowns and the offense average an astounding 9.0 yards per play.
Alabama dressed out both electrifying wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, who broke his ankle Oct. 24 against Tennessee, and senior center Landon Dickerson, who had knee surgery after injuring it in the 4th quarter against Florida in the SEC Championship Game. While Dickerson’s contribution Monday night was limited to the pregame coin toss, Waddle made his presence felt on the Tide’s 1st drive — catching a critical 3rd-and-3 shovel pass for 15 yards down to the Buckeyes’ 7.
Alabama needed all 4 downs from there to record its initial score, as Harris piled in from the 1 for a 7-0 lead. After stonewalling Ohio State on its 1st drive, the Tide defense bent on its next effort — with Ohio State marching 75 yards aided by a 1-handed 36-yard grab by Jeremy Ruckert and a Master Teague 8-yard burst into the end zone.
After going for it on 4th down only 3 times in the entire season, Saban rolled the dice again on the Tide’s ensuing possession, as Harris burst for 3 yards on a 4th-and-1 at the 10 to keep the drive alive. The gamble worked, Smith hauled in a 5-yard touchdown pass for a 14-7 Alabama advantage early in the 2nd quarter.
Jones coughed up a rare turnover on Alabama’s next possession, as he was stripped of the football by Ohio State’s Baron Browning during a sack to gift the Buckeyes the football at the Tide 19. An Alabama pass interference penalty pushed it to the 4, and Teague barrelled in from there to tie it at 14.
But unlike his younger attitude that earned the nickname “McEnroe” for lack of focus after mistakes, Jones showed exactly no ill effects of the miscue. The Heisman finalist directed the Tide down the field with his arm — and legs via a rare 7-yard scamper up the middle — before tossing a beautiful screen pass that Harris converted into a 26-yard TD for a 21-14 lead.
Ohio State continued to gash Alabama’s rush defense, though, as Fields — who was fighting off a nasty hip pointer sustained against Clemson 10 days prior — scrambled for 28 yards and then Teague rumbled for 29 more down to the red zone. Alabama looked to have Ohio State stopped, but Jordan Battle was called for targeting on Ruckert and ejected. Still, the Tide stopped the Buckeyes from there and forced a 23-yard Jake Seibert field goal that made it 21-17.
It was at this point that Smith showed exactly why he was the first wide receiver since Desmond Howard in 1991 to win the Heisman. The player on the receiving end of the Tide’s magical 2nd-and-26 overtime TD pass against Georgia as a freshman in 2017, Smith torched Josh Proctor on a 44-yard reception on the ensuing possession and then waltzed in on a 5-yard touchdown pass for a 28-17 advantage.
Alabama finally asserted itself on defense when the Buckeyes (7-1) got the ball back, forcing a 3-an-out that included a 3rd-down stop with just 10 players on the field. Offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who was headed to Texas as the Longhorns’ head coach after the confetti fell in Miami Gardens, took full advantage of Ohio State doubling Smith by dialing up back-to-back screens to Harris for 18 yards before Smith again toasted the Buckeyes secondary on a 42-yard TD reception and a 35-17 cushion.
The Tide got the ball to start the final 30 minutes of the 2020 season, and motored down the field intent on scoring again. This time, Ohio State kept Alabama out of the end zone — forcing a 20-yard field goal by Will Reichard (who converted on all 98 of his field goals or PAT attempts in 2020 as a Lou Groza Award finalist) that made it 38-17. Smith injured his right hand on Alabama’s possession, though, and spent several minutes in the injury tent before being escorted to the locker room. His night was done.
Even though Ohio State was without running back Trey Sermon, who injured his collarbone on the Buckeyes’ 1st possession and was transported to a medical facility, the Buckeyes kept battling. Fields gutted out a 33-yard scamper up the middle into scoring range, and then found Garrett Wilson on a 20-yard TD pass that cut the Tide lead to 38-24.
Even without Smith and with a clearly-hobbling Waddle, the Tide offense geared back up and put it back in the end zone. Waddle caught his 3rd pass on basically 1 leg to keep the drive alive, and backup running back Brian Robinson Jr. bulled his way for 32 yards on 4 carries, and little-used weapon Slade Bolden caught his 1st career touchdown pass via a 5-yard screen from Jones to make it 45-24.
After defensive tackle Christian Barmore stopped Teague a critical 4th-down stop to give Alabama the ball back with a short field, the Tide offense made Ohio State pay to start the 4th quarter — as Harris returned for his swan song by waltzing in for a 1-yard score that sealed the victory.
Congrats to Alabama. Total domination. Well done.
The Alabama DeVonta Smiths – 52
The Ohio State Suckeyes – 24
Dominant performance by the Tide! RTR!!
Except for that terrible fumble that led to 7. Bwahahaha.
Mac is a NC QB… You’re just a crying b!tch…
He sure is lucky he is surrounded by NFL players that make him look good.
Congratulations on your 4 losses…
I don’t even know why your posting on here. 13-0 > 8-4.
That’s comforting. Pretty sure when he goes to the NFL he’ll be surrounded by NFL players there too.
Agreed. If Bama doesn’t give up that 7 they’d have beaten them like…well, Florida’s scout team.
Why don’t you go watch your game against Oklahoma on Youtube? Completely embarrassed the SEC. Your players (outside of Pitts) obviously aren’t smart enough to know that non-first rounders shouldn’t opt out of bowl games.
A dominate win and still you are looking for reasons to make an excuse. You are as bad as your HC. Except he is rich and you are just a moron. Enjoy your 8-4 season and the beat down you got from Okie.
Seriously “scribe”?? What’s wrong with you? And really, isn’t it way past your bedtime – all ten year olds should be in bed now! No wonder people have such a negative attitude towards Gators! That was MR. Jones’ FIRST and ONLY fumble lost in his career! Grow up!
Jealous gaytor fanlet’s talk about that LSWHO loss
National Champions 52
Florida 46
Congratulations on your 4 losses..
Moral Victory U.
They don’t even have a moral victory… Florida is on a 3 game losing streak…
Oh, FFS, just ignore him.
Why? I’ll take every opportunity he provides to trash Florida…
Florida was impressive only losing 4 games..
Like one of the Auburn fans said…they have assumed the mantle of best 4 loss team in the country so congrats.
@ The Scribe….Its still a loss. Don’t be like a Ga bulldog fan and glorify a loss or try to spin it to being something positive.
OU Sooners – 55
SEC’s most embarrassing bowl loss – 20
Also auburn….
The Scrub
tOSU = Frauds.
A&M got screwed
A&M lost to Alabama 52-24 as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So your point is that A&M deserved to be in the CFP as much as OSU.
….No? That’s not at all my point?
Maybe next year Slowhio State and Notre Shame won’t be over-ranked. Naah.
Yea old dame needs to OFFICIALLY join a conference or sit out every year!
(Yes I know they were part of the acc…. for this year alone….)
As long as Brian Kelly is the head coach, I am putting them on a post-season major bowl ban whether it is the CFP or a NY6. He has not done the best job when it comes to preparation for these marquee games. Last year Georgia and Michigan were hyping the ND game up as highly-anticipated matchups, whereas BK was like “business as usual”, and I don’t think that’s going to help you win these important games. I know Notre Dame fans really respect all he’s done for the program, and that’s a totally valid argument to make. But it is possible to be very grateful for how he turned the program around, and still feel that a different HC will be what they need to take them over the top.
Jake Fromm > Justin Fields
Both are mediore but I would take Fields over fromm.
Stetson Bennett, fourth of his name, had more yards and touchdowns against Bama then Justin Fields.
SB IV > Justin Fields!
LMaO… All the fans of teams from the East showed up…
Who’d you expect to show up? Big 10 fans? What a dunce.
I would expect Bama fans to show up…
Not fans of 4 loss teams…
This is an SEC website. Didn’t you know, Jethro?
This article is actually on the Bama page… Notice the Big A?
Ignorant fu(k…
This article was actually at the very top of the SDS main page. Jethro.
STILL IS at the very top of the SDS main page. LMAO.
Yet it’s a article in the Bama page of SDS….
I don’t give a rat’s a** what’s on the Bama page. It’s on the SDS main page and that’s where I saw it. So blow it out your a**.
LMaO.. Florida still finished behind UGA.. What a joke of a team…
Scribe, too stupid to realize he is the dunce.
I agree, BamaTurd is the dunce and he’s too stupid to realize it.
To offer the kind gesture of congratulations, yes.
SDS should employ an Algorithm that only allows posters to post on their team’s pages….I guess.
I suppose so. Seems like some users think that you’re supposed to only read and comment on articles concerning your team.
JTF…No it’s an open website…Just think, we’d miss out on all these Georgia vs. Florida posters & it sure would be boring without those posters.
Whoa, hang on. I think most of US are on here to congratulate Bama on their beatdown of OSU… well, except for the Florida trolls who constantly try to make things about them.
…that’s at BamaTime!
Yeah, I showed up to pay respect to the greatest team of all time. I only hate you when we go head to head. Mostly because it’s such a mismatch.
Yeah, they don’t actually have 18 national titles. They claim a bunch that are complete b.s.
Then again, this one isn’t. So congrats to Bama for winning this actual title.
1980….
Ignore him. Even I can easily admit Saban is the G.O.A.T. and when you watch them play you see why it takes something special to knock them off. Great performance for a great team.
Corch just go away. You’re a boil on the backside of all UGA fans.
Very true Corch but then again, we don’t really have 6 either even though some publications say otherwise, so it’s all relative. 6 sounds better than 2, 18 sounds better than 14 but one fact is unmistakable, 3 in the CFP era shall never be disputed…well maybe 2017 (: lol
Congrats Bama fans, enjoy the moment…well deserved. Saban should retire now…
Congrats to Bama. That was a truly dominant performance, and exactly what I expected to see. This was a team that wasn’t to be denied by anyone, and will certainly go down in the record books as an insane squad (perfect season with all SEC competition).
I said during the SEC Championship game that no one else was going to play Bama harder than UF did. Boy did that come out prophetic lol.
I bet OSU vs. Notre Dame would be a good game.
Yep. They should play it at the Music City Bowl next season
Congrats bama, total dominance this year.
Congratulations Alabama. The Tide rolled the bucknuts.
@ AlltheSEC…. Thanks my friend.
RTR!
No doubt who the best team is this year. OSU was not much of a challenge. Roll Tide folks and until next year. SEC SEC SEC!
“I try to manage the game. It’s kind of my job to do that. Honestly, I have a lot of great players around me so that’s my job, so that’s my job: to get them the ball and try to hold onto the ball, and not give the other team the ball. There’s a lot of really good players on my team that make me look a lot better than I am. I think that’s probably a good, accurate description of what type of quarterback I am.”
Mac Jones
You’re one salty fan Scribe. Mac 36/45 (80%) 464 yards and 5 TD’s.
“I would try to manage the game if I had that luxury. It’s normally a QBs kind of my job to do that. But honestly I have a lot of crap players around me so I see it as my, you know, my job, so that’s my job to get myself the ball and try to hold onto the ball, and throw passes to myself when I’m open and I try not give the other team the ball more than 3 times a game. There’s a lot of really good players on other teams that make me look a lot worse than I am. I think that’s probably a good, accurate description of what type of quarterback I aspire to be”
Kyle the Scribe Trask
Congrats Bama, great win in every phase of the game, including the game manager position. Mac Jones seemed to play better after DeVonta went out and after he got rolled up on. Think the world of Smith’s skillz but sorry, Mac Jones was the CFP MVP…rtr
What else can you say except ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!
Congrats to the Tide on another title. Did in dominant fashion. This year gets an”*” but it’s not a bad thing. It marks the tm that was able to lock in during a pandemic and have its stars stay committed til the end when they did have something to lose if injured.
At least our 52-24 loss was the second game of the season and against a healthy Waddle. Can’t say it would have been much better in a playoff game, but I do believe the Aggies would have had a decent chance against Notre Dame, Clemson, or Ohio State.
We also had more yards and allowed less yards than OSU
I have little doubt you would have beaten ND and Clemson and from what I saw last night OSU as well. At any rate, this is another argument in favor of OSU being gifted a spot. You shouldnt get to play half a season and get in. A&M and Okie would have made better competition.
Oh boy! I don’t think there was a defense in college football that could have stopped Bamas offense this year. I think that offense could score on some of the worst defenses in the NFL lol.
I will say living up in Northeast Ohio it’s hard to be down about this game after the Browns game last night and I think I can speak for all of northern Ohio haha
I have to admit, I loved watching your guys beat the living heck out of Clempson.
Yes, ohio state had a great year, even through Covid difficulties. i regret saying that they shouldnt have made the top 4 after what yall did to clemson
With Alabama clearly #1, that makes Florida clearly #2.
Florida looked like someone took a big #2…
Guess Ole Miss is the 2008 National Champion then.
You should have said no to drugs, bud.
Even after what OK did to florida? LOL!
Half the starters were not playing. LOL!
That’s what LSU said.
Was it the half that lost to 5 win LSU?
Scrub, you are a clown on SDS. Enjoy your four loss season and UGA ranked higher in the polls.
UGA? BWAHAHAHAHA! 1980
Scrub, I’m not a UGA fan. I’m just stating that UGA is ranked higher than your 8-4 scrub team.
1980 didn’t stop them from Finishing ahead of Florida..
Better hit the sack kid. Tomorrow is just another school day Swampland Junior High. And dream about a team finishing up on a string of losses and the players walking off the field holding their butts in front after Okie handed em back.
The scribe= dumbass
editit = from alabama
@ the Scribe; you have no room to talk.
Congrats, Bama. This game gave me what I wanted: a tight game for a half, then a blowout. It’s a championship well deserved.
52-46
4 losses is garbage… Hey atleast Trask won all those awards… LMAO
Congrats on the Game Manager winning the Heisman. Oh … wait …
Florida will never sniff the CFP.
He won the Natty… Trask got blasted against OU…
Florida is garbage..
Mac received more awards than Trask.
SDS… That would be easy for Mac since Trask won Nothing…
True BT.
The gamer manger won the Dave’s O’Brien & Johnny Unitas for being the best QB in college. Also placed 3rd for the Heisman and is now a National Champion QB. Sooo bitter.
Florida, they aren’t elite. Are they garbage? Heck no. Also, Jones had a better offensive line, better receivers, and better play callers. Just saying.
Nobody really cares.. People are just giving the troll $hit…. Just saying.
Audience, are you really trying to re-litigate the Trask vs. Jones “debate”?
*Aubie, not audience
Have up you literally lost it?
Pulling for the garbage team of Florida has broke him…
We are talking football man, not shoe tossing.
Nobody cries like b!tches from Florida…
Don’t lump us all in with one idiot.
It really is one guy, probably 10 or 11 years old. No one could make his arguments but a kid.
I’m guessing a teenager. He has become the most annoying person on this site.
I think negan still holds that honor. The Scrub just doesn’t babble and carry on writing a novel.
Media: “A&M lost 52-24 to healthy Bama in week 2 in Tuscaloosa therefore they don’t deserve a chance in the playoffs let’s put in 5-0 Ohio State”
Ohio State loses 52-24
Really can’t make that s*** up
Agree.
Now who would win between ’19 LSU and ’20 Bama on a neutral field?
That’s a game I’d love to have seen.
Need a playoff with them, the 1995 Cornhuskers (The greatest team I’d seen in my life until last year), and a usual debate for the number 4 team.
A game for the ages
@anand….Totally irrelevant.
I’m comfortable saying Alabama. 2019 LSU was very good and played their game of the decade against 2019 Bama, while 2019 failed-season Bama forgot how to play for the first half and yet still only lost that game by 5.
You’re a homer, so of course you are. Lots of LSU homers are just as comfortable saying the opposite. It matters not.
+1, it doesn’t, but it’s interesting to ponder.
Regardless, everything is back to normal again this season.
I would like to see the ’19 LSU team and the ’20 Bama team play the 2011 version of themselves.
Amazing what Alabama can do when they have a whole team of starters. Linebackers were healthy all season long, no major injuries other than waddle.
Congrats Bama. This was a complete beat down of a good OSU team. Smith was simply unbelievable in the first half. I hope his hand is ok. Fun to watch. This Alabama team is one of the greatest college teams of all time. Tomorrow we can argue that point, but tonight let’s just celebrate another SEC national championship.
Great game. No one was going to beat Bama this year.
With that said, the string of blowouts makes you wonder whether #5 might have put up more of a fight than #s 2, 3, or 4.
We absolutely know one thing. A&M couldnt have done worse and allowing two ACC schools in should be a red flag going forward. With FSU in bad shape and Miami just better than average, it was a one team conference. May have been why they got a special dispensation from the ACC to play a full ACC schedule. And you see what we got. Two from a weak conference barely putting up a fight. The ACC is a conference with half a dozen Vanderbilts. (again, sorry Vandy but you know its something you will have to fight out of).
ND is not a true ACC team and we don’t really know TAMU would have done better… They sure didn’t look good against a depleted bowl opponent for two third of their game…
I feel the teams that were in the playoffs deserved it.. 3 of the 4 teams in the playoff will lose every year…
Hello
Congratulations Alabama on winning the National Championship.
Congrats Bama on a season well done. Yall had a fantastic team this year.
& you’re from Florida.. nothing to be proud of.. believe me
Congratulations to Bama. Incredible victory and an incredible season.
Congrats Bama! SEC again showed out.
The notorious B1G overrated again. Notre Dame gave Bama a better game than THE Ohio State Buckeroos. Bama went undefeated in an all SEC season and amidst a pandemic to throw in for good measure. Saban is the GOAT and surpassed Bear Bryant. Congrats again!
True, he is the G.O.A.T., but what should be scary to the rest of the SEC (and all of college football for that matter) he’s probably going to coach for at least another five or six years. He said in an interview that he wanted to coach as long as he could. How many more can he win?
Not sure but he is currently bringing in possibly his best recruting class ever… He isn’t slowing down.
Better than Tua, Smith, Harris, etc, etc? I heard 9 first rounders?
I said recruting class.. It’s hard to know where they go in the draft until they actually play don’t you think?
He currently has 7 five star recruits..
I mean you should understand recruiting ranking as a UGA fan… UGA fans beat their chest about it every year before going on to win nothing..
You were obviously dropped on your head as a baby.
You’re obviously a dumba$& that should have just not replied if your entire point was to be ignorant…
Congrats on the win! Wonder how the score board would’ve been had Waddle been healthy. You know… like when A&M played Bama’s full roster :)
That’s almost like a backhanded compliment…but its all good. SEC!
On a unrelated note. U know who’s probably very upset about this game? lebron. And that’s good enough for me :)
Roll Tide!
I like it!
When A&M lost to Bama by the same score, at least it was at the beginning of the season without much of a summer or fall camps to get ready. By the time they got to the Orange Bowl, they were playing mainly underclassmen at most of the skill positions.
Undefeated in the first-ever 10-game conference schedule, beat the two best teams in the East, no cupcake tune-up games, and demolished 2 CFP teams – all while dodging and battling a pandemic. An outstanding year, even for Saban. And the Bama beat goes on. Congratulations, Tide.
Congrats to Bama! Totally dominated…. so much so, I got bored and fell asleep right after halftime.
Playing a half season and getting gifted a spot has put the whole selection process on display as a fraud, including Notre Dame. There were several teams playing better than either. Other than the shock of the score, it again says the CFP field should be 8. Clemson, OSU and ND, all three, had a good chance of being knocked out in the first round. And no, my lone opinion is there are no first round byes. Four bowl games and all play. If not the wrong teams may get a bye.
But who would have gotten in that was legitimately better than Notre Dame and Ohio State? I keep hearing this but I couldn’t tell you one team better. 2 loss Oklahoma didn’t deserve it, Cinncy lost to Georgia, and Florida didn’t deserve it either. They only team you could make an argument for would be A&M but Bama already showed what it could do to them. And you could say A&M was playing better later in the season, but so was Bama.
So I ask again, who was a better and more deserving team than either Notre Dame or Ohio State?
Dear Nick, I hear retirement is awesome. You should try it. Sincerely yours, Everybody not a Tide fan
Betting he has another ten years or more.
That’s my worst nightmare…I may not have 10
Noooooooooooo!
I heard he wants to finish his career as Bill Belichicks personal “assistant” ;)
Keith Henley
I don’t appreciate you making coke come out my nose. JK. Great comment
Clean-up on Aisle 3!
roll tide roll!!
I want to give a shout out to all you fans of other sec teams that’s showing class & congratulating Alabama.. I know a lot of bama fans are obnoxious.. but I don’t talk shat about others teams till you talk about mine
Don’t think Bama was dominant this year? Played and beat EVERY SEC team this year with the exception of the two worst statistcally – South Carolina and Vanderbilt. Need an encore?
Ole Miss scored 48 against the Tide – Ohio State and Notre Dame combined 38!!! And we know what happened in those three games. 2020 was a strange year for sure, but that Saban dominance was pretty familiar! Congratulations Alabama. You earned everything.
sp – statistically
Congrats Alabama. I don’t see a single team out there that deserved it more than Alabama. They have athletes all over the field. And I don’t think they buy them like they do up in Athens. Great win. Great team. Congrats on your 16th natty. Or 18th. It’s only 16 if you refer to the College Football Hall of Fame. But according to Alabama, it’s 18.
That’s because they claim 2 that any legitimate CFB fan will recognize as complete BS.
All of the championships that Alabama claims are recognized by the NCAA. There are actually four more the NCAA recognizes that Bama doesn’t claim.
Since the 60’s, Alabama has only claimed AP/UPI/Coaches poll titles, then BCS or CFP. Yeah, we should probably drop the 1941 claim, but if you don’t like the numbers we claim, start talking to the NCAA.
1964 is a BS championship, they lost their bowl. Rules got changed that year because of it.
Bama won the AP and Coaches in 64….
Bear had 3 illegitimate championships. Frozen Hang mentions one : 1964, when the unfairness caused the AP to begin waiting until after the bowl games to crown the champ (which would have been Ark that year if that had been the rule since #1 Bama lost their bowl game).
#2. The year in 70s,1973 maybe, that Bama was co champ with NDame even though ND beat Bama in bowl game . That year finally got the coaches poll to follow AP and wait until after bowl games for final rankings.
#3 1978 they were co champ with USC even though USC had same record AND beat Bama IN BHM. That was sketchy too.
BUT all of Sabans have been legit.
So what makes those illegitimate? Where they not recognized by the AP or coaches?
You’re basing it on the selection process changing? The selection process has changed multiple times in CFB…
So when they went to selecting after the bowls that made the others illegitimate? What about when it went to BCS did that make the selecting after the bowls era illegitimate? When it went to the playoff did it make the BCS championships now illegitimate?
The rules have changed numerous times but the constant is Bama wins the NC no matter what the selection process…
My point was that some of those 17 titles are a stretch imo, but every one from 1979 on has been no doubters .
Also your last point is well taken.
As a Bama fan from my childhood, I agree, Unclenutz. The UPI championship in 1973 is tarnished by the bowl loss. However, the rules were the rules back then. The ones that I seriously challenge are the ones that the sportswriter for The Birmingham News, Wayne Atchinson, dug up, put in an article, and later began to be claimed. I’m talking about ones from the 1940’s when Bama had 3 losses and finished 3rd at best in other polls. Now, throw those out and Bama STILL has more than other teams. At least Auburn doesn’t count the one The Opelika newspaper and Golf Digest gave them when Tuberville was the coach. I respect that, Auburn.
If Ohio State had our defense from last year, they win this game. We had a championship defense last year. LSU only scored 23 on us.
Bama scored 45 on Auburn last year…
Great game…Roll Tide !
Ohio State’s offense scored as much as UGA (with a former 4th string QB) did against Bama. So, no, with Auburn’s 2019 defense Ohio State wouldn’t have won.
OSU found out what it’s like to play in the SEC! Imagine if you had to face teams like this three/four times per year and then the other ones that are on par with INDIANA! Northwestern beat a somewhat crappy Auburn team (what was left of it) that my Gamecocks beat earlier in the year for our SECOND win after thrashing Vandy. That Indiana team that held up pretty good against OSU (who were “purportedly” missing 22 players) got beat by a five win SEC Old Miss team! OSU’s win against Clemson was only ONE of the SIX losses by the ACC in the bowl season – a PERFECT 0-6!!
What an impressive win!
Mac and Devonta were outstanding!
The defense really outperformed expectations
Probably, Alabama’s best National Championship team
Best way to not embarrass the SEC in a bowl game is to not play in one. You’re welcome.
Sorry y’all are going through such a tough time. We had our own stretch of wondering the wilderness from Stallings retiring until we hired the GOAT.
Although I will NEVER forgive Payton Manning for directing the band at Bryant Denny, I hope Tennessee will make a comeback.
It was good to see Ohio State get slapped down hard.