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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Only saw it for a second but was that a U2 spy plane that just did the flyover?
Sorry, didn’t watch any of the pregame stuff
(unless you meant the interception/runback ;-)
Wow !
.. that was one helluva pass !
What a game already. Wow.
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.
Another one !
Clemson again !
I watched some of the pre-game and saw a lot of empty seats. Anyone else see that?
Good run for Clemson.
Yup. I saw that.
I thought all the U2's had been decommissioned?
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.
Wonder what they had to pay per head to the idiots jumping up and down to that trash halftime noise . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3718066/posts
Some other info on Trevor Lawrence and last night’s game ....
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Tua Turntheballovailoa has fewer cousins this morning.
Just kidding. He'll be fine.
Good luck in the future to him and Alabama.
That character from D and C is precisely what my wife referenced
In her misery as her Tide went down the drain
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