Alabama Adds to an Already Overflowing Trophy Case

I would like to start by tipping my Banning Junction hat to Clemson. They had an amazing season and surely with be the preseason number one come August. Even with Deshaun Watson returning, getting back to the national championship game will certainly be a difficult task though. With that being said, I would like to name Alabama as the 2015-2016 jasathletics College Football National Champion.

An early season loss looked like it might derail Alabama, but they proved to be resilient as they finished the regular season with only that one loss to Mississippi on their resume. One would have expected their first two games after the regular season to be difficult. However, they won both fairly easily. The first, the SEC Championship game, I have to say did not surprise me since Florida had no offense whatsoever after losing their quarterback Will Grier early in the season. The second did surprise me though because Michigan State had a solid offense led by Connor Cook and still proceeded to score zero points.

Alabama was finally challenged in the national championship game, which did not catch me off guard. In fact, I fully expected Clemson to win even though they were officially the underdog going into the game. Most of the game was evenly matched and Clemson took a slight lead into the fourth quarter. However, the fourth quarter is when the big play floodgates opened for Alabama ignited by a brilliant onside kick. Although Clemson scored a couple of late touchdowns, the onside kick was no doubt the turning point in the game, the punch from which Clemson was unable to recover.

This marks the fourth time in the last seven years that Alabama has won the jasathletics College Football National Championship. Not only that, Alabama also won the other national championship in all four instances. The only other team to complete this feat was Florida State in the 2013-2014 season. Also noteworthy, is the fact that Derrick Henry became the first player to capture the jasathletics College Football MVP award and the jasathletics College Football National Championship in the same year. Congratulations to Alabama, but I would like to remind the South that the North still owns the FCS.