maybe at a faster rate.

As far as Bama goes, I think if you exclude the championship game this is their most dominant team of the dynasty. Clemson just made it not look that way in the final. My take is that there’s those two, a small gap before UGA, OSU, and OU (some combo of the 3 in any given year), and then huge drop offs.

I think the thing that has happened in college football is that kids are more likely to leave home than they used to be and that’s only fed into the cycle of good teams recruiting well and therefore staying good teams.

It used to be that being a good team maybe helped you win the best in state recruits plus some in neighboring states but it still wouldn’t get you kids from across the country. For instance Bama being good would help them beat out auburn in state, plus get some FL and GA kids. That’s it though. These days, in any given class Bama and Clemson will have the top players from Virginia, Michigan, Oregon, California, wherever. So, though the NCAA has never had the parity the NFL has, I think it gets even less of it by the year.