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College bowl winners and losers: Alabama, Alabama coaches, SEC

Let's start our annual review of the bowl season -- a season unprecedented in scope (41 games) and in the quantity of New Year's duds -- with four big winners from the national championship game.

From there, we'll expand to evaluating the winners and losers from the full slate of games.Winner I: Nick Saban. His fifth title overall and fourth at Alabama. Greatest coach in the sport's history? You could make the case given the era of parity in which he's dominated and the process by which the champ is crowned.Winner II: Lane Kiffin. The former Raiders, Tennessee and USC head coach (am I missing any?