It’s not just Alabama, it’s the South. SEC football is king and has been for decades.
That needed to be said. I moved to Atlanta in 1966. I soon learned that, most of the time other nation wide power house teams would come into the South or be invited to a bowl game with an SEC team, and wind up getting beaten.
It fit in nicely with the then provincial makeup of the Southeastern states. As was stated, "kick each other around and then kick the outsider around."
AMEN!