re: Bama National Titles / Playoff Format

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Not sure about 92, especially if they had to play FSU, before Miami.

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Bowden's prime FSU teams usually peaked in the latter part of the season. Beating them and Miami B2B would have been a tall order.

Bama was sky high against Miami in '92 being a hungry underdog with a month long emotional / strategic build up playing in a stadium in SEC country. Wedge FSU in there somewhere and it would have tough enough just to have won that game much less carry the same energy into the Miami game that we saw in the Superdome.

I think beating Florida twice in '09 would have been tough for some of the same reasons. Alabama was waiting on that game for a year, was emotionally high, and played near perfect.

Alabama's usually come through when it's had the legitimate best team in the country, so I can't think of many seasons since I was old enough to follow closely (born in '78) that Alabama didn't win the national title when it should have.