It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

You thought this title was about Christmas and New Years?  Boy are you wrong!  The most wonderful time of the year for me is the BCS national championship game, more commonly referred to as the SEC Crystal. 

This marks the seventh year in a row that a Southeastern Conference football team will play for the national championship.  It marks the fourth year in a row there has been much rejoicing about football in the state of Alabama, as The University of Alabama brought home the big boy trophy in 2009 and 2011, while cross state rival Auburn University won it in 2010.  This will also mark the seventh year in a row there is much gnashing of teeth across the nation, especially outside the SEC.  Screams of "easy schedule," "down year," "media bias," and other such nonsense permeates the minds and lips of the unknowing armchair football analyst.

Remarkably, the SEC has demonstrated its dominance in collegiate football year over year by not only winning championships, but by placing the most talented athletes in the National Football League.  Names like Mark Ingram, Cam Newton, Trent Richardson and on-and-on reverberate throughout the League.  And while the cries of a playoff resound around the country, this year alone, had there been a playoff, would have allowed for two SEC teams to play in it.

There are certainly talented athletes at every major college football program, but to deny the current superiority of the SEC is to deny reality.  Will there be a significant polar football shift some day?  Possibly.  But that shift may not happen any time soon, as the conference's focus on winning national titles is only outdone by, well, nothing.

My prediction for the upcoming national championship game, which pits number one Notre Dame versus number two Alabama is this:  an Alabama victory by no less than ten points.  After the game we will hear about the strength of a probation ladened Ohio State team and how it could have beaten Alabama, or someone will note that Bama was beaten by SEC newcomer Texas A&M, but none will want to admit that the University of Alabama has created a dynasty among the collegiate faithful. 

So, with that I bid everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  And I would also like to bid everyone a very merry Roll Tide Roll!!

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Give 'em hell Alabama!

Rooooooll Tide Roll!