The college football season wrapped up last night with the Georgia Bulldogs winning their first national title since 1980 by taking down the defending national champ Alabama Crimson Tide. Even though this year’s College Football Playoff included a Cincinnati Bearcats team that’s never won a national football title and a Michigan Wolverines squad that last claimed a split title in 1997, football last had a new school claim a crown in 1996— Florida Gators. That was my freshman year in Gainesville, so yeah, it’s been a relative eternity.
As usual it’s a different story in the world of men’s college basketball.