Alabama should be furious about its No. 2 ranking on Reddit.com’s listing of America’s Most Hated College Teams. In the head-coaching era of Nick Saban (2007-15), the Crimson Tide have claimed four SEC titles, four national championships and eight consecutive 10-win seasons — a streak which currently has no peer throughout the country (FBS level). In terms of recruiting, according to 247Sports.com, Alabama has also landed the nation’s top-ranked class for six consecutive years (2011-16) — which essentially means the Crimson Tide coaches are experienced in the dark art of rejecting 4-star prep talents. Think about that … a big-time school occasionally having no immediate need for prep All-Americans. Also, for those living in the South, let’s just say that Alabama fans, while polite and social on football Saturdays, expect to win every game by 30-plus points — no matter the opponent or venue. (Sadly, that presumption played out in the Dec. 31 Cotton Bowl, with ‘Bama bashing Michigan State — my alma mater — by a 38-0 score.) And what about the hilarious, but haughty inline photo (above) of Tide fans using the same banner to celebrate multiple titles? Put it all in perspective, and Alabama should be more loathsome, more distasteful, more intolerable than every other football program in the country. Bar none. And yet, in the eyes of Reddit.com, Ohio State shall carry that mantra into the 2016 season. Such a pity…
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