The national championship, being played this season at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., kicks off at 8:30 ET on Monday. According to Matt Holt, VP of Business Development at CGT in Las Vegas, before the New Year’s Eve playoff games, CGT set a hypothetical line of Alabama -4 over Clemson.
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One of the story lines leading up to Clemson’s College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Orange Bowl against Oklahoma was that numerous players from both teams were unafraid to express belief that their respective teams were better than the other.
Monday night’s championship game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers marks the final game of 2015 college football season.
There was talk early in the season after Alabama lost to MS that the Tide dynasty was in decline.
During tonight’s Clemson vs. Alabama national championship game, thousands of students will form a virtual truce on social media to show solidarity for both teams’ wild mascots, the tiger and the elephant.
Reputation means a lot in college football and Monday night’s game in the desert represents Clemson’s first real chance to prove it can be part of college-football royalty. I will never get why you have so much must invested in Alabama.
“Well, I think that you always try to create a standard of excellence and define exactly what the expectation is for the players that you have on this particular team, and each team is a little bit different”, he said. But a knee injury suffered during the Orange Bowl put his status in doubt for the championship game. “So I think it’s awesome what the NCAA has been able to do”. The main battle on the ground features Alabama’s running back Derrick Henry, who amassed 2,061 years this season on top of 25 touchdowns.
If Alabama beats the Tigers to win a fourth national title in seven seasons, the argument may be settled.
“This is the first one I’ve sniffed as a coach, and he’s going for his fifth”, said Swinney, who is in his eighth season at Clemson.
Swinney and his players have said the same thing since the matchup was decided, that Alabama is the team they’d most want to play.
Coker has been seen as a game manager, until the Cotton Bowl triumph over Michigan State in the national semifinal. Hundreds of Crimson Tide fans will gather at Dawghouse Saloon on Demonbreun and at Moe’s Original BBQ in Cool Springs beginning at 6 p.m.
“I’m a very serious person about trying to do the things to have a very good program that benefits the players personally, academically and athletically, helps them have more success in life for having been involved in the program”, he said. And I just can’t believe that sometimes doing what’s right is such a big deal, but that’s where we are as a society right now.
Alabama is favored in the contest by a 7 point spread.
“A lot of their biggest plays are broken-down plays”, Smart said. The sophomore has rolled up more than 4,700 yards of total offense, including 1,032 rushing yards.
Alabama’s recent history with mobile quarterbacks has been hit-and-miss, but a strong defense has been the program’s constant, and this could be the nation’s best, especially a fierce front seven that includes standout tackle A’Shawn Robinson, linebacker Reggie Ragland and defensive lineman Jonathan Allen.
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“We expect him to play”, Swinney said.
