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All jokes aside. I had a barner tell me today that they beat Memphis, and Memphis beat Ole Miss, and Ole Miss beat the champs, so technically they were good enough to win the championship. He. Wasn't. Being. Sarcastic. Barners gonna Barn.
And since it was "nowhere close to top 5," and you want to be so literal, then please list the 10-15 national championship games that were better.
Going back just to the BCS era, there have only been 3 other national championship games with a closer score, and none of them had as many points scored. So while, say, Auburn vs Oregon was only a 3 point win, I'd hardly call a 22 - 19 victory more exciting that what we saw last night. While I wouldn't say "ever" myself, I would say that was the best title game since 2005 Texas vs USC.
Could claim more, could claim less. How we got to 16 was a stroke of pure marketing magic. Bama's sports and information director in the 80s, Wayne Atcheson, did some research and realized that Alabama was only claiming 6 when they had been awarded several more during the times when multiple teams won the same "national championship" during the same season, and other seasons when there were split titles. Back then there were 6 different organizations that ranked college football and crowned national champions. Sometimes they were the same, but rarely. So we claimed 5 more based on being listed as national champions by at least one of those organizations after a season. Other teams had done this all along, but the reason you only hear it discussed by Alabama detractors is that we claimed ours much later, and all at once. The reason I call this marketing magic is that it was done in the 80s and it went under the radar for so long. If anyone tried to do it now (as Auburn once planned) you would be ridiculed to death. Like it or not, Alabama has been crowned national champions by one of those 6 sources more than 16 times. That much is not in question. The problem is that now people question the accuracy of the rankings that were used to crown those champions, and that's not really water that any fan-base wants to swim in. If we start that process then who's to say we don't start disqualifying all "pre-playoff" national champions because we didn't like the BCS system? Or when we eventually move from 4 to 8 teams in the playoffs, we disqualify all "4 team only playoff" national champions. Most Bama fans don't care that much about the number 16. We're in the middle of the greatest run in the history of the sport. It's only when times are bad that you lean on the past. So if we hit another 15 year drought then we might thump our chest about the number 16, but for now it's just something the media uses to drum up headlines and keep the talking heads employed.
Here we see a double standard that kids might want to understand before spending all that time working on your throwing motion and reading defenses. If you want to make a ton of money playing football, and all while living like a normal 20-something guy, then you need to learn how to tackle instead. There's not one linebacker or corner in the league that would even get re-tweeted for this video. Not one. But if you're going to be a QB, and in turn, the face of the team, then you need as much character as you do talent. This isn't a matter of "class," it's a matter of understanding the requirements and expectations. Before you go on a rant about how juvenile and classless the guy is, remember how you acted in your 20s, and you did it all without being famous or having a few million bucks in the bank. No, Johnny isn't lacking in class, he's lacking in brains.
I think it's time we put this story to bed so his family can grieve and move on. It's a tragic death that involved a talented but troubled young man. Writing articles that further validate just how troubled he was isn't helpful to his family. We don't need to know how many times he'd been arrested, or why he was dismissed from various teams. He was an Alabama running back. Let's treat him with the dignity he deserves just for making it that far in life.
I assume he meant that Auburn didn't force one in overtime.