Oklahoma will not be there, but the team that knocked the Sooners out of this year’s Playoff, Clemson, will be present along with Alabama, the only team from last season’s football Final Four to make it back for a second go-round in 2015.
When it came time for the seeding of the four teams that would advance as Playoff teams in the second season of the College Football Playoff format, there were some of the opinion that the top seed, Clemson and Michigan State, the three seed in this season’s championship pairings, would not be around for tonight’s final showdown.