Tuscaloosa News
All football seasons, all football teams are different, composed of different players with different experiences. That's worth remembering as the University of Alabama approaches the College Football Playoff along a path that bears a striking similarity to the one that the Crimson Tide took a year ago. There was the loss to Ole Miss in the early going. There was the march through the rest of the SEC schedule without the luxury of a margin for error. There was an image forged, respect regained. Now, there is a Big Ten champion waiting in the semifinals.