The Alabama Crimson Tide will play for their sixth national championship under coach Nick Saban, 13th overall in college football’s poll era (1936-present) and first since 2017. Alabama is 2-2 in CFP championship games. A sixth title at Alabama for Saban would match Paul “Bear” Bryant’s total with the Tide, but it would give him a record seven overall. He also won a BCS title at LSU in 2003.
For Ohio State, it would be its seventh national championship of the poll era and first since 2014, the inaugural season of the playoff.
Alabama’s interior defense, led by DT Christian Barmore, vs.