Well, who expected this?
All season long, Clemson and Alabama have been the two best teams in college football, but the general thinking was that the Crimson Tide was on a different level from their peers, even from Dabo Swinney’s bunch in the state of South Carolina.
But in a heavily-anticipated national championship game Monday night in California, Clemson dominated Alabama like very few teams ever have.
Let this final score sink in: Clemson 44, Alabama 16.
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“We have seen Alabama bully people for a decade,” ESPN play-by-play man Chris Fowler said.