Alabama’s Title Still ‘Mythical’
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By DERON SNYDER
Somewhere along the way in major college football, we stopped. We quit being accurate in our description. We dropped the extra syllables and characters. We got lazy and gave in to convention.
But it wasn’t long ago when writers, broadcasters and fans were upfront about reality. Everyone acknowledged that power conferences cut backroom deals with the bowls and the team voted No. 1 in the final media and/or coaches poll would be crowned as the mythical national champion.
Mythical wasn’t surrounded by quotation marks or parentheses. Teams chased mythical titles and became mythical champions, plain and simple, no explanation necessary.
However, as society morphed into the fast-paced, instant-gratification, 800-channel blur that exists today, “mythical” slipped from the discussion and our conscious. We allowed major college football to equate its champions with the legitimate champions crowned at every other level and in every other sport.
But the fact of the matter is Alabama won the mythical title Monday night, like Auburn won the mythical championship the year before, and so on.
