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College Football Playoff Championship Game: Alabama vs. Clemson Preview
ESPN ^ | 1-6-2019 | Davbid Hale & Alex Scarborough

Posted on 01/06/2019 10:34:08 AM PST by blam

Clemson's Christian Wilkins will end his fourth and final season with the Tigers the same way he has ended each of the prior three: with a showdown against Alabama, and for the third time it comes in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T (Monday, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).

"I guess the only comparison is the Rocky movies," he said. "I know after three it's a trilogy. But what's four?"

It's a good question, though it's doubtful Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney have spent much time researching it. The on-field questions, however, deserve plenty of attention.

Sure, this is a matchup between two teams that know each other pretty well by now. Alabama came back to beat Clemson for a national championship to cap the 2015 season. Clemson returned the favor in 2016. Last season, the Tide topped the Tigers in the Allstate Sugar Bowl before upending Georgia for another title. And there are plenty of holdovers from those three, from Wilkins to the coaches to the undeniable heavyweight fight comparisons. But a lot has changed, too, and so we're digging into the details -- and hopefully avoiding too many Rocky allusions -- to find out who has the advantage in Part IV of college football's biggest rivalry.

Alabama X factor: Safety Deionte Thompson will have his hands full with all of Clemson's receivers, but Hunter Renfrow is another animal. Thompson can ask his predecessor, Minkah Fitzpatrick, about that. Fitzpatrick, a first-round pick and perhaps the best defensive back ever to come through Tuscaloosa, was torched by Renfrow in the team's three previous playoff matchups, where he caught a combined 22 passes for 211 yards and four touchdowns, including the winner in 2016.

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KEYWORDS: alabama; championship; clemson; football; southcarolina
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To: tomkat

Only saw it for a second but was that a U2 spy plane that just did the flyover?


61 posted on 01/07/2019 5:23:21 PM PST by BiggBob
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To: BiggBob

Sorry, didn’t watch any of the pregame stuff

(unless you meant the interception/runback ;-)


62 posted on 01/07/2019 5:24:49 PM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

Wow !


63 posted on 01/07/2019 5:28:49 PM PST by tomkat
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.. that was one helluva pass !


64 posted on 01/07/2019 5:30:08 PM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

What a game already. Wow.


65 posted on 01/07/2019 5:32:54 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
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To: blam

I don’t have cable but do have ROKU and on the ESPN app you can watch the game using their Skycam option, no commentary or you can watch the game on the option of local radio, either Alabama or Clemson.

On that option you get a split screen, one showing the sideline, in my case the Alabama one, and the other screen is a little larger showing the game.

Well if you watch Saban on the sideline he’s got this black guy following him along with a cup of gatorade. Where ever Nick goes that guy is right behind him. Almost looks like his black butler the way that guy follows him.


66 posted on 01/07/2019 5:34:25 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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Another one !


67 posted on 01/07/2019 5:35:54 PM PST by tomkat
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To: All

Clemson again !


68 posted on 01/07/2019 5:36:26 PM PST by tomkat
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To: blam

Steaming link for anyone one who want’s to watch online.

http://www.streamiptvonline.com/


69 posted on 01/07/2019 5:39:44 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: blam

I watched some of the pre-game and saw a lot of empty seats. Anyone else see that?


70 posted on 01/07/2019 5:40:43 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: tomkat

Good run for Clemson.


71 posted on 01/07/2019 5:41:14 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
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To: BiggBob
" Only saw it for a second but was that a U2 spy plane that just did the flyover?"

Yup. I saw that.

I thought all the U2's had been decommissioned?

72 posted on 01/07/2019 5:45:21 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

This article is a few months old but it says some still fly out out Beale Air Force Base. Near Sacramento

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-2-spy-plane-still-flying-combat-missions-60-years-after-debut-1528382700


73 posted on 01/07/2019 5:54:24 PM PST by BiggBob
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BIG stop !
74 posted on 01/07/2019 6:08:32 PM PST by tomkat
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To: BiggBob
"This article is a few months old but it says some still fly out out Beale Air Force Base. Near Sacramento"

Thanks. I didn't know that. We have one on display here at our Battleship Memorial.

75 posted on 01/07/2019 6:13:46 PM PST by blam
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Wonder what they had to pay per head to the idiots jumping up and down to that trash halftime noise . . .


76 posted on 01/07/2019 7:08:19 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Enlightened1; blam; ImJustAnotherOkie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3718066/posts

Some other info on Trevor Lawrence and last night’s game ....


77 posted on 01/08/2019 3:35:51 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: blam
"Tua Is My Cousin"

________________

Tua Turntheballovailoa has fewer cousins this morning.

Just kidding. He'll be fine.

Good luck in the future to him and Alabama.

78 posted on 01/08/2019 4:03:39 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease
I guess this is from Trevor Lawrence's high school days.


79 posted on 01/08/2019 6:02:04 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

That character from D and C is precisely what my wife referenced

In her misery as her Tide went down the drain


80 posted on 01/08/2019 6:03:36 AM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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