There is a good chance that your favorite college football team doesn’t have a player on its roster that was born in 1996.
That year is significant because that’s the last year college football had a first-time national champion, Florida. Every champion since then has won at least one before. Usually, that champion has come from either the SEC or the ACC.
College football has always had a parity problem, but it sure seems worse in the playoff era. Even in the bid-budget BCS era that famously squeezed out small budget programs, it at least felt like more than a handful of teams had a shot at a title.