Just read an article that showed that 9 of the last 10 national champions were either bama or had to beat bama to get there. oddly enough our 2013 title was the only one that didn't.
2007 LSU would’ve never made the BCS Championship without beating Saban’s 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 miiiight’ve snuck into the BCS title game at No. 2, but TCU was undefeated at No. 3.)
2011 Alabama beat LSU. (An LSU win would’ve added to this record, as LSU had already beaten Bama that year.)
2012 Alabama beat Notre Dame.
2013’s champs didn’t 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.
Nine of 10!
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.
