With all due respect to Clemson, next Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship sure seems like it will end the same way it did last year. In fact, it seems like it will end the same way the college football season has wrapped up four of the last six years, and five of the last eight — with Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide rolling to another title.
Want a sense of just how unprecedented Saban’s tenure at Alabama has been? Compare the Tide to last decade’s BCS-era “dynasties.” There was Miami: One pass interference call from winning back-to-back BCS National Championships; Florida: Winners of two BCS national championships (one win away from making three in four years); and USC: Back-to-back BCS National Champions (with only Vince Young’s last second touchdown in 2006 ending its three-peat dreams).