The 2011-2012 jasathletics College Football National Championship goes to Alabama

If Louisiana State had won on Monday naming a college football national champion would have been a lot easier. This is because they would have been undefeated and clearly the best college football team this year. They did not win though, and in turn, I was left to decide which one-loss team was the best this year. In the end, to avoid losing credibility, I decided to stick with the formula that I have used to decide every college football national champion up to this point. Namely, the jasathletics College Football National Champion is the team with the best record out of all the BCS bowl winners with ties going to the BCS national champion. (Now you might be wondering how Texas Christian won the jasathletics title last year, but remember that I imposed sanctions on Auburn because of Cameron Newton.) So this year the jasathletics College Football National Championship goes to Alabama. This is only the second time that the BCS national champion has also won the jasathletics title. Interestingly enough, in both instances Alabama was the team. Even without the formula, I think I would have named Alabama as the jasathletics College Football National Champion. This is because of their dominant performance in the BCS National Championship game and because their one loss came in overtime to a team that was one of the best in the nation. Also, the other two teams that I considered - Oklahoma State and Boise State - suffered their one loss at the hands of a mediocre-at-best team and a slightly above average team, respectively. In the end though, this past college football season just shows, more that ever, that there needs to be a college football playoff. It would have been great for college football if Kellen Moore or Brandon Weeden  or both, which could happen with a playoff system, had gotten the chance to face the stout Alabama defense. Contrary to what most people in the Southeast think, I feel that both Moore and Weeden would have put up some points against the Alabama defense and shown them what a real offense looks like.