Only the Union’s Buckeyes of Urban Myer have won a national championship in the current state of college football in the playoff era.
College football has become a Confederate exclusive thing during the reign of Donald Jefferson Trump. If you gave Trump a chance to take credit for the South’s dominance in college football this past decade he probably would like he does with Obama’s economy. But I think most of us realize when Nick Saban returned the Tide to the glory years of Bear Bryant is when this actually took place. Saban turned the Tide back into a monster and bordering programs had to follow suit or else.
Auburn overtly cheated… got better and won a national championship with Cam Newton. LSU was pretty good with Les Miles even without a spread offense. Dabo Sweeney hired Brent Venables to run his defenses at Clemson. Georgia hired Kirby Smart away from Saban and the Bulldogs suddenly became nationally elite while weakening Bama’s defense.
So from my view this is how the Super 5 conference came into being and pretty much has been dominant over the other 115 or so schools playing DI football currently.
Just to paraphrase the Super 5 consists of Alabama, Clemson, LSU, Auburn, and Georgia. David Boren and OU…like Kevin Durant opted for an easier path by staying in the Big 12, but to date don’t have two rings to show for it as does Cupcake.
For the fourth straight year we have an all Super South 5 national championship final with LSU hosting Clemson in the raucous Super Dome.
It should be a good game if Venables’ defense can somehow ‘slow’ the spread offense of Heisman winner Joe Burrows. What I mean by slowing is holding LSU to somewhere around or between 38-42 points.OU was done in nine minutes against these LSU Tigers. It was the most pathetic performance in recent OU football history since the ‘no mas’ debacle against Pete Carroll’s USC team in 2005. How ironic current LSU head coach Ed Orgeron was on that USC staff of Pete Carrol
Lincoln Riley’s Sooners looked like little girls against LSU. If it had been a high school game parents would have been bitching about redistricting or some other Bernie Sanders-like act of creating parity in college football like getting your homes for free or having oligarchs paying your credit card bills.
If elected…maybe Bernie could stonewall Congress into lobbying the NCAA to limit these five schools from recruiting too heavily in Florida and Georgia.
So here’s the real truth…. there is college football and then there is the Super South 5. The Super 5 doesn’t stay stagnant every season as Clemson has challenged Alabama for supremacy. Georgia is offensively hamstrung like LSU was with Les Miles. Auburn is up and down and has to beat Alabama in the Iron Bowl just to advance to the Super South 5 conference final.
Don’t look, but Dan Mullen at Florida is probably about two years away from entering his Gators and expanding the elite conference to six teams.
I have to like LSU tonight on their home field. I would guess somewhere in that melee of drunken Cajun humanity James Carvel will be wearing his LSU ballcap and beaming when his Tigers have added another national championship trophy to the case in Baton Rouge.
Just another Super South 5 national championship final.