The 2018 college football season comes to a close this evening - in Santa Clara, California, for some reason - when the top-ranked undefeated defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide once again meet the second-ranked undefeated Clemson Tigers, at 8:00 p.m. on ESPN.
Though you’ll be reminded of these very facts ad-nauseam during tonight’s broadcast, let me be the first to tell you what you already know. This is the third national championship game meeting between Alabama and Clemson in the last four years and though this match-up has been maligned because of this, these two programs pretty clearly boast the best teams in the sport this season.