95 years ago, Alabama football changed the South with Rose Bowl win over UW

The History of the SEC covers this extensively

It would be like UW winning in 2016

Washington was a power. Bama wasn't

Changed their trajectory bigly
 
I was interviewed by the commie rag New York Times on this topic in 2016

https://nytimes.com/2016/12/27/sports/ncaafootball/alabama-crimson-tide-washington-huskies.html
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TYFYS

Though the outcome of that game might not seem to be much more than a footnote eight decades later, to Alabama fans — whose fight song instructs them to “remember the Rose Bowl” — it remains central to their mythology. (The university produced a documentary about the game in 1997.)

More than that, the 1926 Rose Bowl was one of the most significant college football games ever. And, in the way that it is said that the flaps of a butterfly’s wings can alter the trajectory of history, it is arguably responsible for the rematch between the teams that will take place on Saturday afternoon in Atlanta, when No. 1 Alabama (13-0) will face No. 4 Washington (12-1) in a College Football Playoff semifinal.

The 1926 game put Southern college football on the map. It is the variant that has now come to dominate and even define the sport, with nine of the past 10 national champions hailing from the region, and Alabama now laying claim to 16 national titles.

ESPN SEC Network has a great multi part documentary on the history of the SEC. This game got major play on that as well. It was only 60 years or so after the Civil War and football was an elite Ivy sport.

Would Bama have still ended up Bama had they lost? Sure. But they say its bigly
 
"On Jan. 1, 1926, Alabama won, 20-19, with a robust passing game that included what was purported to be the longest forward pass in football history at the time, a 59-yard touchdown that, at least initially, was listed at 65 yards."
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At least things like counting and math are still the same in Alabama as they were in 1926.
 
The other way to look at this is what if (we don't do hypotheticals) UW had won in 2016. We'd talk about it forever. Would it have made a difference in Pete not retiring on the job and mailing it in from there or not?

Could have changed the trajectory of UW. Instead we can't beat Cal anymore
 
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I always thought the Civil War changed the South… could be wrong but……….
 
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