SANTA CLARA, CA – Perfection.
No. 2 Clemson played lights out on offense and made critical stops on defense in routing No. 1 Alabama 44-16 Monday night at Levi's Stadium, the program's second football National Championship in the last three seasons and third overall (1981). With the win, Clemson improves to 15-0 and becomes the first team in college football history to go 15-0 in a season. No major college football team has won 15 games since the 19th century, when Penn posted a 15-0 mark in 1897.
Alabama had never lost a game by more than 14 points under Nick Saban, but the Tigers outscored Alabama 30-3 over the second and third quarters in running away with the win.