Pro-style offense wins championships

Pro-style passing, that is.

I noticed something interesting during Dabo Swinney’s run of National Championships at Clemson. I’d always been more of a “you win at the highest level in the trenches” sort of guy previously, but between Dabo’s victories over Alabama, studying the history of the Big 12 for my book…

…and thinking through some of the matchups of playoff college football, I began to notice something different was defining the big games.

Namely, you couldn’t really win the title by running the football anymore.