November 15, 2024

Alabama is No. 1 — again — though voters keep getting it wrong

Look, everybody is bound to be wrong once. And by everybody, we mean everybody. As in, all 61 voters who in 2015 made Ohio State the AP’s first-ever unanimous preseason No. 1 team. It’s not like they were far off; the Buckeyes, who won it all in 2014, finished 12-1 a year later and narrowly missed the College Football Playoff. But what, in retrospect, strains the imagination is that zero out of 61 voters rolled with the Tide. Alabama is college football’s defending national champion, which shouldn’t rate as a surprise to anyone on God’s green earth. The Crimson Tide have now won four of the last seven titles. Nick Saban has foisted a dynasty upon the masses who’d prefer to believe that any year might be their year. Alabama coach Nick Saban hoists the College Football Playoff championship trophy after the Crimson Tide beat Clemson. | Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images “A year ago,” Saban said at the onset of training camp, “I didn’t know that we were going to have that kind of team chemistry. I didn’t know we would have that kind of commitment.” Raise your hands if you believe that statement. No one? Didn’t think so. Alabama…

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