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College football produced five undefeated national champions in a six-year span to close the four-team playoff era. With College Football Playoff expansion adding more marquee matchups to the schedule and the transfer portal distributing talent more equally across the sport’s most elite teams, undefeated title winners could become significantly more rare. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said as much this offseason amid the ongoing discussions around the future of college football’s postseason structure.
Michigan went 15-0 in its final year under Jim Harbaugh to snap its title drought. Georgia matched that record a year prior. Clemson, LSU and Alabama were perfect from 2018-20. If another team joins that club, Sarkisian said it will be deserving of a statue.
“The idea I think we’ve all gotta wrap our brain around — I don’t know if we’ll ever see an undefeated national champion again,” Sarkisian said at the SEC spring meetings. “If we do, that’s a really good team. Because it’s just so difficult. It’s difficult, yes, because of the quality of opponents you play. But it’s so difficult to stay healthy that long. I mean, you’re going to have teams in years like we had last year where you lose your starting quarterback. How do you respond to your quarterback being down? Or you lose both your left tackles. That happened to us last year.”
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Author : Carter Bahns
Publish date : 2025-05-27 22:02:00
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