The Playoff Monopoly won't end until the ACC/B1G/B10 develop national title challengers

The SEC is not all that different than it has been. Since 2013 the SEC has had 4 different SEC Champions, 4 different teams in national title games, 2 different national champions, and a host of other teams that were 1 win away from the national title game/playoff (A&M, Florida, Missouri). Alabama is in the middle of probably the greatest 15 year run in college football history, and yet the SEC has STILL seen 2 other teams win national titles (Auburn, LSU) and 2 others play for national titles (Georgia, Auburn).

The reasons for the lack of parity solely exist because of the other 4 Power 5 conferences and their inability to have more than 1 (or 1 at all in the P12) program that can produce a national title caliber season/team:

- The P12 is basically nonexistent on the national stage
- The B1G is dominated by Ohio State (4 straight B1G titles)
- The ACC is dominated by Clemson (6 straight ACC titles)
- The B12 is dominated by Oklahoma (5 straight BXII titles)

Alabama is in the middle of the aforementioned run, and Alabama has only won 2 of the last 3 and 5 of the last 7 SEC Titles. The 2 teams that won SEC titles in the other years went on to play in the national title game (2017 Georgia, 2019 LSU). The winner of the SEC Title Game has played in every national championship game since 2006 (except for 2014, though they made the playoff as the #1 seed). The SEC has, across the upper level of the conference, put up legitimate resistance to Alabama's run. None of the other leagues can say the same to their best team (Ohio State, Clemson). I mean, think of some of the Oklahoma teams the last 5 years that went to the playoffs when they were clearly not complete teams, but nobody in the BXII could take advantage (2018, 2019).


Until the P12 wakes up and somebody in the B1G/B12/ACC steps up, we will keep seeing Ohio State and Clemson every single season and Oklahoma most seasons. The only threat to those schools is them losing a game or 2 and having a 2nd SEC school or Notre Dame take their spot.