No matter who won the Cotton Bowl last weekend between Clemson and Notre Dame, FSU football would have played against a team that will play for the national title for the fifth straight season – joining Oregon in the 2014 season, Clemson the two years that followed and Alabama last season as part of that “elite” group.
After the Tigers absolutely thumped the “Fighting” Irish in Arlington, it will be the third edition of Clemson and Alabama for the national title in the five years of the playoff system – which is something hat shows why the playoff is a joke after all, but that is neither here nor there.