Most Alabama football fans are ready to cast aside the teeth-gnashing loss to Clemson in the national championship game. National media were quick to seize on the ‘Dynasty is Dead’ theme so popular throughout the rest of college football. Dynasties die by erosion of success and at least in college football, not by one sudden event.
Yes, the loss was sobering given the Alabama Crimson Tide was both outcoached and outplayed. What does it portend for the future? None of us can know. What we do know is over the last ten seasons, Alabama football has been in the national title hunt almost every season because of remarkable consistency in winning.