FBS 2026: The Burning Questions That Could Upend the College Football World—Are You Ready?
We’ll get a better sense of that this fall.
5. What Was the True Meaning of Alabama’s Quiet Portal Season?
After a 38-3 loss to eventual national champion Indiana at the Rose Bowl, what did you think Alabama would do?
I had visions of grandeur. I thought that such a comprehensive humbling, at the hands of a basketball school that had decided to take football seriously two years earlier, would inspire a vast fundraising surge for the Crimson Tide. The school’s donor class would have looked at the disaster in Pasadena and finally kicked into gear, I figured, tired of three years of national media calling Alabama poor and claiming the school would never compete in a post-Nick Saban world.


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