re: What Does It Mean For CFB If Alabama Wins The Natty?

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Yes new CFB doesn’t mean the best team is NC just like the Super Bowl. The NY Giants were not better than New England with Brady but they won and they’re the champs.

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But is that what we want for CFB?

We have to remember that we love college football for particular reasons. Yes, school spirit and pride are important. But it's also a different culture than the NFL. College football has a lot of pageantry, and that pageantry extends to the storyline that unfolds throughout the season.

Let's use 1998-2023 as a modern era of college football. How many times has the "better" team not been crowned champion? How many times would we say that the national champion is not exactly worthy of being the champ? And I don't mean that the loser of the NC was really the better team. I mean how often has the championship potentially not featured the most deserving team?

Debates aside, I would say that 2023 Florida St, 2004 Auburn, 2003 USC, and a few teams from 2007 are the only ones who may have been legitimately slighted by the system. And even then, there are arguments as to why they should have been left out.

The college football story that plots over the course of a season is extremely unique. It has always been the most unique in-season experience in sports. I'd argue that for global sports. Nothing presents the way college football presents during the season. It's lore. It's legend. It's authentic.

We celebrate the hero's journey to slay the dragon. It's more than just the final kill.

I get that I'm being idealistic and that money rules all. This has been a fun season, and I'm sure the playoffs will be intriguing. But to the OP:

What does it mean for CFB if Alabama (or a few others in the top 12) wins the natty? It means that CFB as we once knew is no longer the wonderful sport we grew up loving.

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What does it mean for CFB if Alabama (or a few others in the top 12) wins the natty? It means that CFB as we once knew is no longer the wonderful sport we grew up loving.

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Yeah that train has already left the station.
We're watching a bunch of spoiled teen millionaires who read at a 5th grade level, transfer into whatever school pays the most money, and they go out and suck arse.

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What Does It Mean For CFB If Alabama Wins The Natty?

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It will mean Alabama still hasn't won a title without an * since 2017.

2020 *
2024 *

I don't think it's just Alabama, yeah you can use Bama because of the 3 losses, but it's going to be this way from here on out.
Next year it could be anyone. I will say if a 3 loss team wins it all,it will come from the SEC. No other conferences will have a 3 loss team that could run the table, the SEC on the other hand has several that's capable.

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What Does It Mean For CFB If Alabama Wins The Natty?

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I feel like the existence of this thread will be extremely triggering for TN Tigah/ NFLSU. Hope it doesn’t make him so upset he responds and lashes out.

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you lost to OU 11 days ago by 21....nobody sees Bama winning it

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I don't see Bama winning it either, but didn't Georgia need 8 OTs to beat Georgia Tech?

Didn't Georgia beat Texas by 2 TDs and beat Tennessee?

Oregon almost lost to Wisconsin - a team Alabama blew out on the road without breaking a sweat.

I don't see Alabama winning it, but I also don't see anyone winning it. It's anyone's guess at this point.

As an Alabama fan, however the season ends I will be very interested in how the team (and the coach) can improve going into next year. That will be my focus regardless if they don't make the playoffs, get bounced or win a natty.

However, for CFB as a whole, I don't think you can overstate how important a Bama natty could be for the sport. With NIL, the transfer portal, Saban retiring, the 12-team playoff, conference realignment, etc... there has just been so much change in such a short period of time. While winning another natty would make me happy as an Alabama fan, I will be far happier that all fans of this great sport can rest a little easier knowing that despite all of the jarring changes we have seen, nothing has really changed.

It would go down in history as the greatest triple head fake in history. They would be taking about OU and Vandy for years.

But, was it head fakes? I think not.

Not a national champion. Just a tournament winner. That's it. No different than basketball.

Thanks a lot, poors (like LSU, A&M, USC, Penn State, Ole Miss) ... this is what you asked for and this is what you're getting.

Suck it tf up and quit with the bitching

If they somehow get in the CFP, they aren't winning the Natty with that team