DALLAS – Friday's Cotton Bowl Classic between top-ranked Alabama and the University of Cincinnati will kick off the eighth four-team College Football Playoff.
The No. 4-ranked Bearcats (13-0) will be the first Group of Five team to participate in the playoff since its inception in 2014. The Crimson Tide (12-1) have played in all but one of them (2019), winning three CFP national championships, including last season's crown.
Cincinnati is fully aware of the Tide's success in the four-team tournament, and it's not intimidated by the task of toppling college football's reigning king.
“We’ve heard a lot about this ‘David vs.