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Five year lookback: What if the College Football Playoff had started a year sooner?

Thanks in part to any Alabama game broadcast on CBS, Tide fans will never forget the Most Painful Second for any fanbase in college football history. Iconic as it may have been for the sport, “Kick Six,” complete with controversy over the tying touchdown play, was a gut punch that not only killed Alabama’s chances at an unprecedented third consecutive national title, but led to a freshman QB named Trevor Knight introducing himself to Katy Perry and the rest of the nation with the performance of his life to lead a rather pedestrian Oklahoma squad to a Sugar Bowl upset over the Tide.