This year’s Good Year Cotton Bowl in Arlington Texas will serve as one of two semifinal games to determine the final two teams to play in this year's College Football Championship game. The surprising upstart number four ranked Cincinnati Bearcats will face off against the team that is no stranger to these games or the Championship game for that matter, the number one rated Alabama Crimson Tide.
Bama enters this game coming off a 12 and 1 season. This year's entry into the College Football Playoffs will mark their seventh overall appearance in the just eight years that the current playoff system has been in place.