Alabama Football: CFB’s offseason theme will be wrong

Get ready for the onslaught, Alabama football fans. Over the next eight months, a downfall of the Alabama Crimson Tide program will be frequently discussed. Only a TCU victory on Monday night could have derailed the talk.

Now that the Georgia Bulldogs are back-to-back National Champions, it will be repeatedly said Georgia has displaced the Crimson Tide as the Kings of College Football. For the 2021 and 2022 college football seasons, the Bulldogs are the Kings. Hats off to them for achieving what only a small number of college football programs have done.

The Dawgs may have begun a new college football dynasty. They will need another National Championship in, no more than a five-season window, to prove that claim.

In college football history, dynasties have overlapped. The Alabama Football Dynasty that began with the 2009 National Championship is not over. The Crimson Tide has about a three-season window to win another National Championship before it can be fairly ruled the current Dynasty is dead.

Will Georgia fall prey to complacency? Such a risk always exists after exceptional success. CFB history suggests the Dawgs will fail to three-peat. They will deservedly be ranked No. 1 in every credible preseason poll. That should be of little or no concern to Alabama football fans.

From inside the Alabama football program, no attention will be given to the Bulldogs unless they make it back to Atlanta in December.

Observing the attitude of Georgia fans will be interesting. Suddenly it will not be Alabama fans alone that are perceived to hold feelings of entitlement. Bulldogs’ fans will quickly adopt a similar mindset. They will interpret Georgia’s ease in dispensing with TCU as proof the Bulldogs were a team for the ages. Maybe it was as much that TCU had no place in the Playoffs.

But enough about Georgia. I have long believed entitlement is a mantle many Alabama Crimson Tide fans wear gladly. In talking about the heat John Calipari is getting from Kentucky basketball fans, Nate Oats commented about Kentucky basketball fans and Alabama football fans.

"(On Kentucky)They’re spoiled. It’s probably like Alabama football fans, to be honest with you. We’re not in the College Football Playoff, and everybody’s upset and acting like it’s a bad year"

What the rest of the college football world views as arrogance, Alabama fans believe as fact. The Alabama Crimson Tide should strongly contend for a National Championship every season. By that, both insane and justified standard, any Alabama football season, not ending in a National Championship is a failure.

What about spoiled Alabama Football Fans?

Was Nate Oats correct about Kentucky and Alabama fans? Bama Hammer ran a Twitter poll asking was Nate Oats right. Over 93% of the responses said Oats was right about Kentucky. I’m guessing a majority of the responders would agree Alabama football fans are spoiled as well. That matters to most Alabama fans about as much as a shoulder shrug.

I have long believed in every CFB Playoff season, there have only been two and maybe three teams that deserved to play for the Championship. This season was one when it was only three teams. Only two of them competed in the Playoff and only one, played for the National Championship.

Congratulations to the Dawgs and bring on next season.