From the poll era to the BCS and now the College Football Playoff, repeating as national champions is becoming harder to do now that teams have to fight through a four-team playoff for a trophy. Since the inception of the playoff format in 2014, no team has gone back-to-back, but the have high hopes to repeat in 2020.
On the road to the Tigers' fourth claimed national championship (1958, 2003 coaches, 2007) a star was born in LSU's offense in quarterback Joe Burrow. The senior led the nation's top-rated offense (568.5 ypg, 48.4 ppg) while rewriting the record book and stockpiling hardware along the way.