- ABC News
- January 12, 2021
Finishing the season undefeated and beating Ohio State 52-24 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T on Monday night had some Alabama players feeling as if they'd made history. "I think we're the best team to ever play," Alabama quarterback Mac Jones said. Jones, who threw for more than 4,000 yards on the season and won the Davey O'Brien Award for the nation's top QB, cited the team's 10-game, all-SEC regular-season schedule. The league adopted the conference-only slate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "There's no team that will ever play an SEC schedule like that again," Jones said. "At the same time, we're just so happy to have won this game and kind of put the icing on the cake." Alabama defensive lineman Christian Barmore, who was named the Defensive MVP after finishing the championship game with one sack and two tackles for loss, agreed with his quarterback's assessment. "Yes, we really are...