It’s Clemson, emphatically. Tigers roll over Tide in national championship

Well, who expected this?

All season long, Clemson and Alabama have been the two best teams in college football, but the general thinking was that the Crimson Tide was on a different level from their peers, even from Dabo Swinney’s bunch in the state of South Carolina.

But in a heavily-anticipated national championship game Monday night in California, Clemson dominated Alabama like very few teams ever have.

Let this final score sink in: Clemson 44, Alabama 16.

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