June 24, 2026
By Austin Nivision, CBS Sports: In the modern landscape of college football, it’s getting harder for programs to build dynasties, and that has been made clear in the first half of this decade. Since 2020, there have been five different national champions, but that parity could diminish in the latter half of the 2020s with a handful of teams eyeing dynastic runs.
Indiana is now the poster child for parity in college football today. Just a few years ago, the Hoosiers were a laughingstock in the Big Ten. All it took was the right coach and an influx of financial investment, and Indiana went from disaster to master of the college football universe.
The forces that allowed the Hoosiers to climb so quickly have made it harder for the traditional powerhouses to establish runs of dominance, as we witnessed with Alabama for over a decade. The Crimson Tide haven’t won a national title since 2020, their longest drought since their first championship under Nick Saban in 2009. Georgia is the most recent back-to-back national champion — winning it all in 2021 and 2022 — but the Bulldogs haven’t come closer than the College Football Playoff quarterfinal over the last three seasons.
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