J.A. Adande

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The Chuck ToddCast · Alabama: How the Crimson Tide Took Over College Football (Part 1) · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Only Notre Dame and Northwestern had a higher rate at ninety-nine percent.

You thought I wouldn't be able to get Northwestern into a conversation about the elite of college football?

Well, when it comes to graduating players, my alma mater Northwestern is elite.

One thousand four hundred three babies were named Bryant, born in Alabama between nineteen fifty-nine and twenty nineteen.

Uh that's we're in the ESPN Sighting Social Securities database.

By the way, you

ask, hey, how come

Although there's only so many teams we can do, so eventually we'll run out of teams.

dynasties.

All right.

So think of going back through the years, did you know that through the year nineteen thirty one, Alabama had won the Rose Bowl game as many times as USC?

Remember, this is back in the days before that Big Ten, Pac Eight Agreement that became the Big Ten, Pac Ten, Pac-Twelve Agreement, et cetera.

Um, but Alabama had six appearances in Rose Bowl through nineteen forty six.

They went four and two in those games.

And it really was an opportunity for Alabama to become the standard bearer.

You mentioned earlier about how much they meant to the South.

This is part of the way that they became essential to the South's identity, really, uh, through sports.

Um, ahead of Alabama's first Rose Bowl in the 1925 season, the LA press had mocked the team as swamp students, no less than Will Rogers, dubbed them the Tusca Losers, maybe not whenever.

Will's more clever lines, but no.

Uh Coach Wallace Wade was quote, taking his boys all the way to California for whipping, as the press put it.

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