The sea of blue-clad fans inside Twitter Stadium on San Francisco Bay erupts. Brent Musburger, 86 years old but miraculously looking younger than he did 20 years before, intones, "And your 2025 national champions -- the Kentucky Wildcats!"

Even if it's not Alabama, it'd be a shock if the SEC wasn't represented in next year's BCS title game. Juan Salas/Icon SMI

To which Kirk Herbstreit adds, "That's 18 of 20 for the SEC, and this is the most unlikely champion from the SEC era, a program that really found itself under the leadership of coach Tim Tebow."

This, of course, is hokey and contrived, but please allow yourself a charitable laugh, for the premise is sound.

When Florida crushed Ohio State on Jan. 8, 2007, to claim the BCS national championship, no one imagined that would be the first of seven consecutive titles for the SEC. While the SEC was widely viewed even then as the nation's best conference, most considered the wide world of college football as too laden with regional powers dotting the landscape for one league to take over in the BCS era.

USC wouldn't let that happen, nor would Texas or Oklahoma. If those powers weren't up to it, there were Ohio State, Michigan, Florida State and Miami. And, really, Notre Dame will eventually awaken the echoes, right?

Well, we saw a reawakened, top-ranked and unbeaten Notre Dame get TKO'd 42-14 by Alabama on Monday night in the BCS championship game, a performance so dominant that all intrigue was over early in the second quarter. It was the Crimson Tide's second consecutive title and third in four years.

And, as noted, the seventh in a row for the SEC.

Great for the SEC. Not so great for the 106 other Football Bowl Subdivision programs, most particularly the supposedly privileged programs in the other major conferences: the Pac-12, Big 12, Big Ten and ACC.

"I don't think there's any question it would be better for college football if the national championship moved around a little bit," said Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, echoing sentiments expressed by everyone in college football outside the SEC.

Please, SEC friends, don't take this wrong. This isn't an anti-SEC screed. This isn't a questioning of the subjective system that often seems to work in your favor. No, the question is whether college football -- the sport itself -- can endure and thrive during a prolonged period of SEC dominance, one that could permanently concentrate the sport's power in a lone region of the country.

The easy answer is that of course it can. Major League Baseball survived the New York Yankees winning 10 of their 13 World Series appearances from 1947 to 1962. The NBA is doing fine today despite the Boston Celtics winning 11 championships in 13 seasons from 1957 to 1969.

You want dominance from a league, not a team? The NFC won 15 of the 16 Super Bowls over the AFC from 1982 to 1997.