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Highest Tide: Rating the best of the best at Alabama

Alabama's 2015 season ended with a national title after a close victory over Clemson. Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire

The 2016 Alabama Crimson Tide fell just short of ending last season with a 15-0 record that would have made them arguably the best team in school history. But a 14-1 record, SEC Championship win and College Football Playoff title game berth do make one wonder where this team ranks among the all-time Crimson Tide champions.

To find out, I set up a grading system that measures many factors of Alabama's 32 teams that won a national championship and/or a Southeastern Conference championship (or Southern Conference championship prior to 1933, when the SEC was formed).

Let's take a look at the top 10 teams in Alabama history.