Reborn, renewed, rebuilt or any other adjective used to describe Alabama Football, the Crimson Tide is back. National pundits agree that Alabama has returned to its customary status as a national championship contender.
At the same time, the Crimson Tide is not an elite football team. Not yet, anyway, but there is time for Alabama to continue its improvement.
In the new world of college football, dispersion of talent may not have created parity throughout the FBS, but it has changed the number of elite teams. There may no longer be any elite teams and certainly not elite as the Alabama Crimson Tide was under Nick Saban.