EDITOR’S NOTE: Every day until Aug. 29, Creg Stephenson is counting down significant numbers in Alabama football history , both in the lead-up to the 2025 football season and in commemoration of the Crimson Tide’s first national championship 100 years ago. The number could be attached to a year, a uniform number or even a football-specific statistic. We hope you enjoy.

Rarely in any sport has one team so stood apart from the rest of the SEC as Alabama did in football in the early 1970s.

Boosted by the simultaneous introduction of the wishbone offense and the racial integration of the team, Paul “Bear” Bryant’s Crimson Tide won five consecutive SEC championships from 1971-75. It’s a run that has never been equaled, part of an 11-year span in which Alabama won nine SEC championships

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