Welcome to This Week in Our Dumb Beautiful Sport, a weekly look at the chaos that reigns over the most perfectly imperfect world of college football.
It's crunch time in college football, and several flawed teams on the playoff bubble are waiting to see if their mistakes will ever catch up to them.
ALABAMA DEALS WITH REALITY AS A MERE MORTAL
Life is pretty good when you're allowed to play for national championships without winning your division. From the 2007 season when Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa through the 2017 season, Alabama had more national championships in years when it didn't even win the SEC West (two) than any other school won period in those same 11 seasons (one, or zero).