EUGENE -- In the fall of 2013, a few Oregon students set up a table on campus and sold green-and-yellow T-shirts with a screen-printed declaration: "We Want Bama."
The Ducks were a top-10 team. Alabama was college football's king. The entrepreneurs were getting ahead of themselves, but a postseason collision course nonetheless seemed possible.
A little more than four years later, Alabama still remains among the sport's elite, facing Georgia on Monday for a chance to win its fifth national title since 2009. At Oregon, meanwhile, the official campus bookstore has slashed prices by up to 60 percent on T-shirts commemorating UO's Las Vegas Bowl appearance, a loss.