(NB. This was written before Derek Mason's SEC Media Days presentation. -VI)
I.
If you want to win a college football championship, here are your options:
ALABAMA. Be good already. Have national championships going back to the 20s. Get a new class of 5-stars every year and reload with so much talent that not even having Lane Kiffin on staff can keep you out of the Sugar Bowl. (Though it might keep you out of the title game.)
OHIO STATE: the same. Although you may decrease your difficulty by playing among the warrior poets of that Ivy League of the Midwest, the B1G.