One of the mightiest powers in the history of college football, the Alabama Crimson Tide, turned to a ferocious offense on Monday night and paired a yard-by-yard rushing attack with a constellation of daring, electrifying passing plays to ravage Ohio State, 52-24, during the College Football Playoff’s national championship game.
The title was the sixth at Alabama for Coach Nick Saban, equaling Bear Bryant’s mark in Tuscaloosa.
But this championship season was not like all of Saban’s others at Alabama. For as sound as Alabama’s defense so often was, a mainstay of any Saban team, and for precise as its special teams play was, the Crimson Tide plowed past one opponent after the next with one offensive outburst after another.