Although history might suggest otherwise, the Alabama Crimson Tide will win the national championship for an unprecedented third straight season.
At the risk of overstating the obvious, Nick Saban’s squad is on the verge of a truly historic feat. As my distinguished colleague Tim Letcher points out, the NCAA official website lists the Minnesota Golden Gophers as the last team to win three consecutive national championships, accomplishing this feat between 1934 and 1936 seasons. However, college football was a completely different game back then, as players played both ways before the initial implementation of the free substitution rule in 1941.
In other words, no one has ever pulled off a “three-peat” in the modern era.
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