There has been more talk and coverage about the NFL playoffs this weekend than Monday's National Championship game between Alabama and Clemson.
Tuesday, there was even more talk about Texas A&M Athletic Director Eric Hyman's sudden resignation just 24 hours after he gave football Coach Kevin Sumlin a resounding endorsement.
Only the Aggies could take a golden opportunity to move ahead of the burned orange of Texas and turn it into a chaotic situation.
A&M has become the quarterback transfer school, with Kyle Allen and Kyler Murray the two latest to announce they no longer would be Aggies.
Look for that story, and many others, to be overshadowed soon as ESPN turns more of its focus to Monday's game between the Tide and Tigers.
Most of the national media begrudgingly will write and talk about Alabama's greatness while resisting the urge to gag, like most college football fans will want to do.
By all accounts, this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Crimson Tide. Instead, Alabama has played its way into the championship game with a dominating defense and a Heisman Trophy-winning running back.
Saint Nicholas, commonly know as Nick Saban, is back in the national spotlight, which will help him secure yet another No. 1 recruiting class.
You can't have a zoo without animals, and so far Saban has been the one with the most animals almost every year.
Saban won the BCS national championship at LSU in 2003, spent one more year in Baton Rouge -- where his wife, Terri, once said they intended to watch the oak tree they planted grow -- and jumped to the Miami Dolphins for two ill-fated years.
Then college football changed. Saban went to Alabama, where he didn't immediately play for the national championship. Instead, he started recruiting nationwide, and by his third season the Crimson Tide won the 2009 title.
The signs about "Dig him up," referring to former Coach Bear Bryant, that hung around for previous coaches were put in the closet.
When the Tide won the national championship again in 2011 and 2012, the signs were burned.
"Rebuilding seasons" in 2013 and 2014 resulted in one-loss regular seasons and the Sugar Bowl, where the Tide lost its second game each season. Last season's Sugar Bowl loss was in the first Final Four, where Alabama surprisingly lost rather easily to Ohio State, who would win it all. The other team to interfere with Bama's run was Florida State, which beat the Tide's archrival Auburn for the 2013 title.
Now, Saban and Co. are back, and it won't just be the Tiger Nation that is pulling against the most powerful football entity in the country Monday night. It appears most college football fans are sick of the SEC in general and Alabama in particular.
Where is Big Brother? Can't the Federal Trade Commission see a monopoly in this somewhere?
Since Danny Ford led Clemson to the national championship in 1981, the SEC has won the championship 11 times -- on four of those occasions by Alabama. The Tigers haven't made it back to a national championship game.
Instead of being favored by seven points Monday night, maybe Alabama should have to spot Clemson two touchdowns and an interception.
Perhaps it is Alabama's fault there hasn't been more interest in this game.
If you weren't born in Alabama or brainwashed, you probably are not pulling for the Crimson Tide on Monday night. Familiarity with success has bred contempt.
Sports on 01/07/2016