re: Alabama 2008-2012 - How impressive would this run be?

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You mention those years but forget the years Bama was screwed. Like in 1966 when they started the season ranked #1, won every game and finished ranked #3 behind two teams that tied.

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First, take a look at Alabama from 1967 to 1975

From Alabama's Bowl game in 1967 to their season opener in 1975, they played only 12 games against Non-Southern teams.

Bama won only 2 of the 12 games vs Non-Southern teams going 2-9-1.

The South was lily white segregated football.

It's no surprise the voters gave it to better Northern integrated football - (such as the Michigan State team Notre Dame tied) over a mediocre country-club football conference. The SEC was not the SEC back then. Alabama dominated a insular society that wouldn't let the best players in America play and hardly ever beat teams outside of the South back then and wouldn't regularly challenge itself against better integrated teams until the 70's and then had losing records against them.

As far as I'm concerned, until the SEC was fully integrated in the late 1970's, Bama was the champion of "white football" - or lesser football...so I take those 60's titles with a grain of salt.