Cinderella was reserved for March and the movies. It didn’t exist in college football.
Even with the advent of the four-team College Football Playoff in 2015, there was no room for the little guy.
The best the non-power conference schools could hope for was a New Year’s Day Six bowl. Until now. Until Friday afternoon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.will get its shot, the chance to bring some March Madness to the gridiron. To pull off the upset of upsets, and earn a spot in the national championship game. No more wondering. No more what-ifs. At last, when the 13.
, arguably the greatest coach of all time in Nick Saban and one of the country’s premier defensive players in Will Anderson Jr. They are coming off of a one-sided win over Georgia in the SEC title game. They are supposed to cruise. “As a football team, we feel like we’ve earned our way here. We feel like and know we belong here,” offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock said. “The thing that some people forget sometimes about this group of seniors, and this football team in particular, is they did everything that people ask them to do to get to this point. They’ve been successful 13 straight times that they’ve taken the field.”
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