SportsPulse: They've been on a collision course all year and will finally clash in Santa Clara. From Hard Rock Stadium, Trysta Krick and our college football experts preview the annual juggernaut matchup. USA TODAY
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Much of what has happened this season in college football could have been predicted a year ago, down to the fact that Clemson and Alabama will play Monday night for the national title.
Within that inevitability, however, it would have been controversial to say that Alabama would have the the game’s most highly-regarded defensive lineman and even more unthinkable that it would be Quinnen Williams.