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And the other beat the Kick Six team.
āTo be the man, you gotta beat the man,ā Ric Flair says, and our sportās made it pretty clear over the last decade who the man is, most of the time.
Nick Saban has four national championships at Alabama. You knew that part.
Did you know five of the other six national champs had to beat Sabanās Bama along the way?
It gets even better.
2013 Florida State beat Auburn in the BCS title game, the same Auburn that needed one of the wildest plays in football history to wreck a potential Alabama three-peat.
And FSUās head coach, Jimbo Fisher, is a former Saban offensive coordinator.
So the only national champ of the last decade whose players didnāt have to endure Saban in one way or another still had to come really dang close.
It gets even better even better.
Sabanās 2003 LSU won the national title, and he left for the NFL after 2004. That means 11 of his last 12 college teams directly swung the national championship. (We could go even further and argue undefeated 2004 Auburn shouldāve made the BCS title game, if we wanted.)
You mightāve realized all this already, but I hadnāt until making another post that Alabama fans would like less than this one.
Either way, include this fact on the list of evidence that Alabamaās 2008-2016 run makes for the greatest dynasty in college football history, one thatās not even done yet. The Tide just turned in their highest-rated Signing Day of their seven-year streak of No. 1 recruiting classes.
9 of last 10 champs have been Saban or beaten Saban
āTo be the man, you gotta beat the man,ā Ric Flair says, and our sportās made it pretty clear over the last decade who the man is, most of the time.
Nick Saban has four national championships at Alabama. You knew that part.
Did you know five of the other six national champs had to beat Sabanās Bama along the way?
- 2007 LSU wouldāve never made the BCS Championship without beating Sabanās first Tide team.
- 2008 Florida had to beat Alabama in the SEC Championship.
- 2009 Alabama beat Texas.
- 2010 Auburn needed a 24-point comeback to win the Iron Bowl. (The Tigers miiiightāve snuck into the BCS title game at No. 2, but TCU was undefeated at No. 3.)
- 2011 Alabama beat LSU. (An LSU win wouldāve added to this record, as LSU had already beaten Bama that year.)
- 2012 Alabama beat Notre Dame.
- 2013ās champs didnāt play Bama, but hang on a second.
- 2014 Ohio State knocked Bama out of the first-ever Playoff before beating Oregon.
- 2015 Alabama beat Clemson.
- And 2016 Clemson beat the Tide in the National Championship.
It gets even better.
2013 Florida State beat Auburn in the BCS title game, the same Auburn that needed one of the wildest plays in football history to wreck a potential Alabama three-peat.
And FSUās head coach, Jimbo Fisher, is a former Saban offensive coordinator.
So the only national champ of the last decade whose players didnāt have to endure Saban in one way or another still had to come really dang close.
It gets even better even better.
Sabanās 2003 LSU won the national title, and he left for the NFL after 2004. That means 11 of his last 12 college teams directly swung the national championship. (We could go even further and argue undefeated 2004 Auburn shouldāve made the BCS title game, if we wanted.)
You mightāve realized all this already, but I hadnāt until making another post that Alabama fans would like less than this one.
Either way, include this fact on the list of evidence that Alabamaās 2008-2016 run makes for the greatest dynasty in college football history, one thatās not even done yet. The Tide just turned in their highest-rated Signing Day of their seven-year streak of No. 1 recruiting classes.
9 of last 10 champs have been Saban or beaten Saban
