Top-ranked Alabama and No. 3 Georgia began the college football season considered two of the best teams, and there they remain heading into the national championship game on Monday night, set to face each other in another high-stakes bout with plenty of dramatic story lines.
The College Football Playoff title game, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, is scheduled for 8 p.m., Eastern time, and will be televised on ESPN. It will result either in Coach Nick Saban’s seventh national title at Alabama, tightening the Crimson Tide’s already firm grip on the sport, or it will be the moment that Georgia Coach Kirby Smart, once an assistant coach on Saban’s staff, finally gets the win over his former boss that has long eluded him.