SportsPulse: They've been on a collision course all year and will finally clash in Santa Clara. From Hard Rock Stadium, Trysta Krick and our college football experts preview the annual juggernaut matchup. USA TODAY
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Alabama and Clemson meet in the College Football Playoff Championship it will be to the surprise of no one and as the prediction of nearly everyone, and as the culmination of a regular season that wound through surprisingly few detours in arriving at this seemingly preordained location: Crimson Tide and Tigers, again.
That's four times in as many years, meaning these two programs meet with the same frequency as the World Bank and now represent a series that features more consecutive installments than The Lord of the Rings.