The view can be taken, reasonably, that the "Bulldogs" championship was a predictable (and it was predicted) rematch outcome, all sound and fury signifying nothing beyond. Alabama has the best coach in the college game, maybe the best college coach of all time, the best coaching staff and the best players. Stuff happens.
It is also reasonable to take an alternate view: that the outcome was the beginning of a changing of the guard in the slave states; that Georgia was the best team in the country all season long except for December 4; that while Nick Saban isn't going anywhere, he is also old; that Kirby Smart isn't going anywhere either, can recruit like hell, and is young; that Jimbo Fisher may or may not be going anywhere, is not as old, and signed the best recruiting class for 2022; that Alabama's two losses this season were to Georgia and Texas A&M. That all told Alabama is in a tight spot in the near term, that it is caught in a pincer movement from east and west and cannot reasonably be expected to continue playing in the national championship game annually.
