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Thanks to Alabama<\/a>, the nightmare possibility of Clemson becoming national champions has been thwarted.\u00a0 God, how miserable would the college football scene have become if Clemson were the reigning champions?<\/span><\/p>\n But in all seriousness, that was among one of the more exciting games that I\u2019ve watched.\u00a0 Although I was hoping for Alabama to roll Clemson like they rolled Michigan State, and just about everyone else in front of them en route to the playoffs, when the day is over, I\u2019m simply glad that they won.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really an Alabama fan by any stretch of the imagination, especially since they\u2019ve had their way with Virginia Tech in more recent history, but as a Tech fan, I loathe Clemson and their own successes against my team.\u00a0 So when push comes to shove, I was decidedly rooting for Alabama last night, and pleased to have witnessed them emerge victorious against an extremely competent Clemson squad that could have just as easily won the game themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if it means another year of\u00a0hearing\u00a0ROLL TIIIDE<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with heavy southern drawls.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Really though, the game was very, very good, exciting, and had just about everything that encapsulates what makes college football so fun to watch.\u00a0 For all the times we see scores like Oklahoma 62, Florida International 3, when two very strong squads collide, it really does turn into a heavyweight fight that is fought tooth-and-nail and typically requires every play in the book in order to attempt to gain an upper hand.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, for the first three quarters of the game, it looked very much like Clemson should have won the game.\u00a0 As much as sickened my stomach.\u00a0 It\u2019s just Clemson moved the ball at will, with the same kind of ease as putting\u00a0Double Dragon<\/em>\u00a0on easy-mode and watching bad guys walk into chasms when you stand on the other side of a pit.\u00a0\u00a0Deshaun Watson\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0scrambling and improvising style baffled Alabama all night long, and he was on another planet playing galactic chess while Kirby Smart\u2019s defense was trying to figure out Connect Four.\u00a0 For every 4-5 minute drive Alabama put together that yielded any sort of points,\u00a0Clemson<\/span>\u00a0Watson would answer with 2-3 plays that covered 70 yards and put them in or near the red zone.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously though, Deshaun Watson is an absolute beast-monster who has carried the entire team on his shoulders all season, and as much as it drives me bonkers to see a scrambler succeed so much, it\u2019s truly undeniable just how good he is.\u00a0 Probably better than college-Jameis Winston and college-Michael Vick, and had he actually won a title, then he\u2019d be with college-Vince Young, when it comes to similar style players.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t dislike Clemson so much, I\u2019d say it\u2019s a travesty that such a talented player ends the season as empty-handed as Watson does.<\/span><\/p>\n It was by the grace of god, and Clemson\u2019s suspect red zone play-calling that Alabama remained in striking distance at all times, but if Clemson were just a little bit more competent inside 25 yards, they probably should have won this game by 25 points.\u00a0 Thankfully, they didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n Alabama QB\u2019s\u00a0Jake Coker\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0stat line is way prettier than the story really tells, because removing the makeup and the push-up bra on his line, and it was the story of a QB that is nowhere near as good as his predecessors like A.J. McCarron or Blake Sims, but was truly bailed out by three massive catches by an unsuspecting\u00a0O.J. Howard<\/strong>, and it also helped having the reigning Heisman Trophy-winning\u00a0Derrick Henry<\/strong>\u00a0running on your team.\u00a0 I basically compared all of O.J. Howard\u2019s catches equating over 200 yards to government bailouts, because that\u2019s precisely what just about every single one of them did for Coker and Alabama all night long.<\/span><\/p>\n But truly, if there\u2019s anyone that should really be called the hero of the night, it would have to be Alabama\u2019s special teams, whom accounted for 14 critical Alabama points, as well as denying three Clemson points on a deflected field goal.\u00a0 The 95-yard kickoff return was a demoralizing answer to a Clemson score, and it goes without saying that Nick Saban calling for the onside kick in the 4th quarter was undoubtedly the momentum-changer that Alabama rode into the lead they wouldn\u2019t relinquish.<\/span><\/p>\n It was a game that was truly a roller-coaster of lead changes and tied scores, where it felt like the bad guys would win, and if not some creativity and ingenuity, as well as the tenacity and delivering when it counted, the good guys would not have been able to come back and come out winners, and champions.<\/span><\/p>\n And even if it means another year of Alabama smugness and hearing more roll tide, at least we don\u2019t have Clemson as the national champions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to Alabama, the nightmare possibility of Clemson becoming national champions has been thwarted.\u00a0 God, how miserable would the college football scene have become if Clemson were the reigning champions? 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