Alabama-Clemson, V.
Isn’t that how we all believe this 2019 college football season is going to conclude? And why wouldn’t we? The two have run into each other in the four-team College Football Playoff for four straight seasons, each school winning twice, though Clemson does hold a 2-1 edge in title game showdowns, including last year’s 44-16 beatdown of Bama.
Beyond that, every preseason poll seems to have either the Crimson Tide or Tigers on top with the other one second.
As Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swafford told the Associated Press last month: “We’ve had four years where those two programs have in a sense separated themselves competitively on the field. You give them their due because it’s been a remarkable run for both programs that appears to not be softening.”
But should we just scrap the season and automatically put them in the CFP title game inside New Orleans’ Superdome on the Monday night of Jan. 13, 2020?