re: Bama owns 10% of the nation's Top 100 with ten months to go.

Of course you cant win it without the players, the issue is that you dont need elite recruiting classes to have the players necessarily. Oregon has played in a national title game and seriously contended for several others despite usually recruiting outside the national top-20. Mizzu nearly won the SEC last year and had a four year average class rank prior to that in the 30s.

Recruiting classes correlate well with championships, but they arent the end all be all.