Never doubt Nick Saban, and other lessons from Championship Week

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - Keyser Soze

"The rat poison you put out there this week was yummy." - Nick Saban

Imagine, an entire college football world, spending a week assuming Nick Saban was done. Imagine Saban's glee listening to all that doubt.

So, here we are, Alabama inexplicably cast in the role of David, slaying a Goliath whose entire history pointed to exactly this outcome. It was Saban's greatest trick, and he lapped up that rat poison like it was Dreamland's dry rub. Bryce Young threw four touchdowns, and Alabama dominated Georgia 41-24 -- and all the things we assumed we understood about college football in 2021 were erased…