Let's start this article with two pieces of seemingly unrelated information.
The Alabama Crimson Tide claim a billion national titles, which is fodder for easy jokes (most of which I've made myself), but the truth is that the majority of them are legitimate. The Crimson Tide are one of, if not the, most dominant football programs in the history of college football. That is a fact which makes it even more baffling that they claim two titles in which they lost their last game of the season, and another in which they finished third in their own conference.