Before Dabo Swinney's unlikely ascension, Clemson went 35 years between their first and second national titles.
Georgia has dumped an assload of money into their program over the years. Hasn't won a national title in 39 years and counting.
For all their dominance, Ohio State has one national title in 49 years (2014) as the one the got in 2002 was stolen—while counterpart Michigan earned one split title (1997) over the past 69 season.
Notre Dame? One championship (1988) over the past 42 seasons—and only came as the result of a bullsh1t call in South Bend to topple No. 1 Miami.
None of that even touches on the amount of good programs out there who have never won a national championship—ever.
All this *signals* is that national championships are hard as **** to come by for most—and our entitled fan base fails to realize just how incredible it was for Miami to win five, have one stolen (2002), get snubbed out of a shot at another (2000), have another beat out of them (1992), **** one away (1986) and leave a few opps on the table, for a slew of different reasons (1985, 1988, 1990).
What Miami pulled off between 1983 and 2001 is nothing short of a miracle.
Anyone who thinks this was the standard—it wasn't even the standard then. It was stars aligned, while UM got on the map and the rest of college football took years to catch up.
It also shows what a miracle it was for Nick Saban to build the big money, dropped bags, crooked machine he put together in Tuscaloosa over the past dozen years—as a dynasty like that in the modern era is as big a miracle as Miami's past success.
