In betting, they say the house always wins. It’s the notion that over the long-term, no matter what you do, the institution will get you in the end. In college football, as long as Nick Saban is the head coach at Alabama, the house will always win. The Tide will not turn against the preeminent power of this era of college football history.
This season did not start brightly for Bama, and this is not one of Saban’s better teams, and yet here they are in the playoff. Its most certainly the Tide team that has battled through the most adversity to get to a position to return to the mountaintop in the Saban era. Now they return to where their era of dominance began: the Rose Bowl. And what a matchup it will be against Michigan, who has had its own roller-coaster, off-the-field sideshow with the sign-stealing investigation running parallel to its dominance on the field.
