There are Already Odds on Alabama Winning 3 Straight National Championships
By Robert Duff in College Football
Updated: January 6, 2023 at 2:18 am ESTPublished:
- Defending national champion Alabama is favored to win the national title again this year
- Sportsbooks have already posted a prop bet on the odds of the Crimson Tide winning three national championships in a row
- Alabama has won five national titles since 2009
Is it one down and two to go for the Alabama Crimson Tide?
Sportsbooks certainly seems to think so. The College Football Championship Odds hasn’t even started yet and already, online sports betting sites are offering odds on an Alabama three-peat.
Odds Alabama Wins 3 Straight National Championships
| Will Alabama Win Three Straight National Championships? | Odds |
|---|---|
| Yes | +400 |
| No | -500 |
Alabama has played in the last three College Football Playoff championship games, winning two of them – not in consecutive years, though.
Can The Tide Roll To History?
In the playoff era of NCAA Division-I football, Alabama, in 2011-12, is the only school to win back-to-back titles.
Four times in school history, the Crimson Tide has captured successive National Championships, but you have to go all the way back to the 1934-36 Minnesota Golden Gophers to find a school that won three national titles in a row.
Should you give the Tide any shot at doing it, then?
#Alabama tracking for the highest-rated recruiting class in @247Sports Composite history adding five-star safety Daxton Hill this evening: https://t.co/1rC9bWqmza https://t.co/Qa2ttVGpiA
— Steve Wiltfong (@SWiltfong_) December 9, 2018
Oh, and there’s this: quarterback and Heisman Trophy runner-up Tua Tagovailoa and his entire receiving corps are back next season.
Alabama Has To Beat Oklahoma Sooner Or Later, Right?
As if they needed any additional motivation for their CFP semifinal against the Oklahoma Sooners in the Orange Bowl, it came Saturday when Sooners QB Kyler Murray won the Heisman over preseason favorite Tagovailoa.
Everyone waited all year for Tua Tagovailoa's "Heisman moment" this season. Well, it's coming on December 29th, when Alabama has 60 points heading into the 4th quarter against Oklahoma and Nick Saban tells Tua: "Keep throwing."
— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) December 9, 2018
There is one tiny flaw in this game plan: the minor detail that Alabama hasn’t beaten Oklahoma since the first time the two schools met on the football field in the Jan. 1, 1963 Orange Bowl.
https://twitter.com/Sooners247/status/1071430336029057025
The Tide are 0-3-1 against the Sooners since that game, but Alabama is 1-0 against Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. And Murray also has a history against the Tide from his days at Texas A&M.
The last time Kyler Murray played Alabama👀 pic.twitter.com/1LsW03LMUt
— Andrew (@aterry65) December 9, 2018
Freshman Murray came on in relief of starter Kyle Allen in that 2015 game, a 41-23 loss to Alabama. Murray transferred to Oklahoma at the end of the season.
Can The Tide Turn Three?
Considering that it hasn’t been done since the heart of the Great Depression, betting on an Alabama three-peat seems foolish. The Tide have suited up great teams in the past decade and they couldn’t get it done.
No is the logical play here.
Sports Writer
An industry veteran, Bob literally taught the course on the history of sports at Elder College. He has worked as a Sports Columnist for Postmedia, appeared as a guest on several radio stations, was the Vice President of the Society For International Hockey Research in Ontario, and written 25 books.
