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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/robotunes on 2025-12-20 06:56:47+00:00.
100 years ago, Southern football was mostly considered a national joke.
But in the 1926 Rose Bowl Bama shocked the cfb world by upsetting invincible Washington, the best team in the country.
Known as “The Game That Changed the South,” that Rose Bowl win helped legitimize Southern football and it paved the way for the the birth of the SEC just six years later.
It also persuaded an Arkansas teenager named Paul “Bear” Bryant to go play football at Alabama.