Alabama has now won five of the past nine national championships.
Astonishing. It makes you wonder if putting winning above all else is worth it (it is) or if capturing national titles with that level of frequency gets old (it doesn't). Nick Saban has won four national championships since Alabama erected a statue of him in 2011.
They did it backwards. Backwards, in Alabama. Whoever heard of such a thing.
The Crimson Tide did something on Monday night for the first time since losing to Auburn - which in hindsight was an understandable setback, considering all of the emotion they must have poured into taking down Mercer the previous week: They were interesting.