Over the past eight seasons, the college football national champion has come from the South with the Alabama Crimson Tide winning three national titles, the Georgia Bulldogs and Clemson Tigers each winning two, and the LSU Tigers winning one. But that’s going to change on Monday as the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies face off in the College Football Playoff title game.
In a press conference this week, Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer didn’t have much to say about the fact that a team outside of the South will be winning a national title this year.
“I guess I don’t get caught up in that,” Kalen DeBoer said. “For us, it was our personal goal to get here and we were going to play whoever we had to play in the semifinals and whoever was next. And that’s Michigan right now. We’re just blessed to be in this position to be able to play the game.”
However, he does see it as a sign of growing parity in college football that the same teams aren’t competing for national titles this year.
“So, I think it says a lot about the parity of college football and how many teams could be in this spot. I think that was something that was noted, I think, especially in the latter half of the season as undefeated teams still were holding on, and that next wave of maybe one-loss teams was really strong and doing well. So it says a lot about college football that you have different teams finding their ways to get to this game.”
We’ll have to see whether or not this parity is maintained.
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