Inside College Football: Alabama Crimson Tide

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CHAPTER 1 TYING THE BEAR When the College Football Playoff CFP began in 2014 fans could count on two things Alabama was going to be there And the Crimson Tide were going to be the favorite to win it all Winning was the norm under head coach Nick Saban But just before he took over the Tide were in rough shape They struggled on the field having not won a national title since 1992. Off the field sanctions in place from recruiting violations lingered as well That all changed under Saban He arrived in 2007 and in the 2009 season the Tide won the Bowl Championship Series BCS National Championship Game They won again in the 2011 and 2012 seasons Although Alabama fell just short in 2013 and 2014 the first year of the CFP it bounced back to win another national title in 2015 By the 2016 season Alabama was primed to win its second straight national title and fifth in eight years But the Clemson Tigers had other ideas The two Southern powers squared off in a Nick Saban resurrected the Alabama 4 football dynasty after he arrived in 2007