There is an entire generation of football fans who know only of Alabama’s dominance of the college football landscape and the inevitability that is Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide. But this decade of dominance had to start somewhere, and that was with Clemson in 2008.
The Tigers were a top-10 team returning what many considered the best running back duo in the nation in James Davis and C.J. Spiller, while Alabama was coming off of a fairly disappointing 2007 in Nick Saban’s first year... Though a monstrous recruiting class had increased fan expectations a bit.
Bur rather than ease into the season with a tough, but hard-fought loss, Alabama blasted onto the national scene with a 34-10 drubbing of the Tigers.