The biggest difference in Alabama 2011-2020 and Alabama 2021-2022 is not being able to

dominate as many of the opponents on the schedule, especially opponents who are not very good.

2011-2020 Alabama had close wins with three teams that finished unranked in the final poll. (2014 Arkansas and LSU, 2016 Ole Miss)

2021-2022- Alabama lost or had close wins with 5 teams that finished unranked in the final poll. (2021: A&M L, UF W, LSU W; 2022: Ole Miss- W, A&M- W)

From 2011-2020 (ten seasons) Alabama had 23 games that were losses or close wins. Twelve of the 23 games were vs. top five teams at the time of the game. Nineteen of the 23 were vs. top 15 ranked teams at the time of the game.

From 2021-2022 they have had 10 such games. Only 1 was versus a top 5 opponent at the time of the game (UGA 2021 NCG) and only 5 of the 10 were against top 15 opponents at the time of the game.

The last two years has been similar to LSU under Miles and Georgia under Richt IMO. But Bama has better players so that's helped to avoid the amount losses those two coaches would have taken. But the team just doesn't get up and assert its will the way it used to. That's why this is different than those other years when Bama was coming off a one or two year time period without a national title.

Can they win a title? Absolutely. Still one of the handful of teams that has a roster that can do it. But there's more to fix here than just replacing players lost to the draft. And that's different.