You could have figured this one out simply by looking at the rosters. Notre Dame is filled with players from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and a lot of other places in the north. Alabama has the vast majority of their players from the state of Alabama with the rest coming from Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana.
Football players from the north are pansy ass pussies. If ND or a team from the B1G ever wants to win a national title, they need to completely abandon recruiting in their backyards and focus on snatching up SEC territory talent.
And get the fuck out with this Ohio State shit. They had way too many close games against garbage B1G teams. Ohio State has never beaten an SEC team. If they had reached the national title game, Bama would've put up 70 on them.