MIAMI — It was supposed to be a colossal clash between two of college football’s giants, a slugfest between the nation’s two stingiest defenses. Monday night’s BCS National Championship game—played in front 80,120, the largest crowd in Sun Life Stadium history—turned out to be just another coronation for Nick Saban, Alabama and the Southeastern Conference. The Crimson Tide (13-1) pounded and pummeled Notre Dame from start to finish, smacking the previously unbeaten Irish from its No.