The first game of this year's College Football Playoff figures to be an offensive shootout, with the high-powered Oklahoma Sooners taking on the undefeated Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl.
It's been a slow rise for the Sooners in 2015, who started the year ranked 19th in the Associated Press Top 25 and had to overcome an early October loss against Texas. They have reeled off seven straight wins, scoring at least 44 points six times during that stretch.
Clemson has steadily been building to this moment in the spotlight, winning at least 10 games in each of the previous four seasons, and everything head coach Dabo Swinney has done during his seven full seasons finally came together with a 13-0 mark this year.