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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1243300, member: 289"]
In the BCS Era, only one team north of the Mason-Dixon Line has won the title- Ohio State in 2002. The others were won by Tennessee, Florida State, Oklahoma, Miami, LSU, USC, Texas, Flroida, Alabama and Auburn.

In the 16 years before that teams like BYU, Penn State, Notre Dame, Colorado, Washington, Nebraska and Michigan won titles. My theory on this is that it used to be said that you recruited size and strength in the north because athletes spent half the year indoors and thus they lifted weights. if you wanted speed and agility, you recruited in the south, where players were outdoors running around for 12 months a year. But when weight rooms became popular- and big recruiting tools, everybody had big strong players. The difference between teams was speed and agility and those recruits were primarily in the south. The southern teams would get the cream of that crop and the northern teams couldn't compete.

But now we've got a national championship game between Ohio State and Oregon and the trophy will come north for the first time in a dozen years. Has the tend been broken or will this be an anomaly?
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