TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama’s routing of Notre Dame for its second straight national championship has been overshadowed in part by a new breakout star – Katherine Webb, girlfriend of quarterback AJ McCarron and Miss Alabama USA 2012.

Webb gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers during and after Monday night’s game, when ESPN cameras visited and revisited her in the stands and announcer Brent Musburger piled on the compliments. As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, Webb had topped 163,000 followers, trumping McCarron’s 110,000. Before the game, Webb – who graduated with a business degree from longtime Alabama rival Auburn University in 2011, according to her pageant biography – reportedly had about 2,000.

“Wow, I’m telling you quarterbacks: You get all the good-looking women,” Musburger said as the camera focused on Webb, sitting with McCarron’s mother. “What a beautiful woman. Wow!”