Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Clemson is preparing to play a game with outrageously massive stakes against a team crowned by the media at-large as the eventual champion for reasons that seem bizarre and misguided to many rational thinkers within the fan base.
Seriously, this again?
Painting with a broad stroke—probably too broad, because SOMEBODY has to pick Clemson, right?—it is apparent that Alabama is bigger, faster, stronger, and has more trophies than Clemson. Yes, in our narrative, all of those points matter roughly the same amount.
Because the media critique of the Clemson-Oklahoma game was so badly misguided (did they get anything right?