The ball dropped early on New Year's Eve -- and landed squarely on Michigan State.
There could be no more dominant ending to 2015 than Alabama's annihilation of the Spartans. But just because the year is over, that doesn't mean the season is complete. The celebration in Texas simply means a chance to finish what Alabama started in the ashes of a loss to Ole Miss and the shadows of skepticism about whether this Crimson Tide team had the same mettle of previous Nick Saban teams.
Now, this Alabama team is one game away from proving it is just as good as its predecessors -- if not better.