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FOOTBALL NEWS:
No. 1 Alabama faces No. 3 Ohio State for CFP championship
College Football Playoff nationwide championship: No. 1 Alabama (12-0) vs. No. 3 Ohio State (7-0), Monday, 8 p.m. EST (ESPN) at Miami Gardens, Florida.
Line: Alabama by 8 1/2.
Series record: Alabama 3-1.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
The Crimson Tide will play for their 6th nationwide championship under coach Nick Saban, 13th general in college football’s survey age (1936-present) and initially because 2017. Alabama is 2-2 in CFP championship video games. A 6th title at Alabama for Saban would match Paul “Bear” Bryant’s overall with the Tide, however it would offer him a record 7 general. He likewise won a BCS title at LSU in 2003.
For Ohio State, it would be its seventh nationwide championship of the survey age and initially because 2014, the inaugural season of the playoff.
SECRET MATCH
Alabama’s interior defense, led by DT Christian Barmore, vs. Ohio State interior offending line with OG Wyatt Davis and C Josh Myers. The Crimson Tide had a number of bad video games protecting the run early in the season versus Mississippi and Georgia, however they have actually gotten better because as Barmore’s play as enhanced. Davis, an All-American, and Myers have actually been Ohio State’s finest blockers, blazing a trail for RB Trey Sermons’ late-season rise (636 lawns in the last 3 video games).
GAMERS TO SEE
Ohio State: QB Justin Fields. The junior is coming off the very best video game of his profession and perhaps the very best video game a quarterback has actually had this season. Fields tossed 6 goals and had just 6 insufficient passes in the Sugar Bowl versus Clemson. He likewise took a nasty hit to the side that left him hurting throughout the video game. Fields’ movement is huge part of his video game. If he’s minimal, it removes a crucial weapon for the Buckeyes.
Alabama: WR DeVonta Smith. The Heisman Prize winner has actually been close to unstoppable in the 2nd half of the season and had 3 more goals on 7 catches for 130 lawns versus Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl. Tide offending planner Steve Sarkisian gets one of the most out of Smith and keeps defenses thinking by lining him up broad, in the slot and typically sending him in movement.
INFORMATION & FIGURES
If Ohio State wins the nationwide championship, it will have played the least video games of any title winner because Minnesota in 1941 went 8-0. … Ohio State is 23-1 under second-year coach Ryan Day, consisting of 3 triumphes in 2018 when he filled out as acting coach while Urban Meyer was suspended … Saban invested 2 seasons in the early 1980s as an assistant coach with Ohio State under Earle Bruce. … Alabama QB Mac Jones has actually finished 77% of his passes. The NCAA record for a single season is held by Colt McCoy, who finished 76.7% of his includes 2008. … The Tide is the first string to have gamers with a minimum of 20 hurrying goals (Najee Harris, 24) and getting (Smith, 20).
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College Football Playoff nationwide championship: No. 1 Alabama (12-0) vs. No. 3 Ohio State (7-0), Monday, 8 p.m. EST (ESPN) at Miami Gardens, Florida.
Line: Alabama by 8 1/2.
Series record: Alabama 3-1.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
The Crimson Tide will play for their 6th nationwide championship under coach Nick Saban, 13th general in college football’s survey age (1936-present) and initially because 2017. Alabama is 2-2 in CFP championship video games. A 6th title at Alabama for Saban would match Paul “Bear” Bryant’s overall with the Tide, however it would offer him a record 7 general. He likewise won a BCS title at LSU in 2003.
For Ohio State, it would be its seventh nationwide championship of the survey age and initially because 2014, the inaugural season of the playoff.
SECRET MATCH
Alabama’s interior defense, led by DT Christian Barmore, vs. Ohio State interior offending line with OG Wyatt Davis and C Josh Myers. The Crimson Tide had a number of bad video games protecting the run early in the season versus Mississippi and Georgia, however they have actually gotten better because as Barmore’s play as enhanced. Davis, an All-American, and Myers have actually been Ohio State’s finest blockers, blazing a trail for RB Trey Sermons’ late-season rise (636 lawns in the last 3 video games).
GAMERS TO SEE
Ohio State: QB Justin Fields. The junior is coming off the very best video game of his profession and perhaps the very best video game a quarterback has actually had this season. Fields tossed 6 goals and had just 6 insufficient passes in the Sugar Bowl versus Clemson. He likewise took a nasty hit to the side that left him hurting throughout the video game. Fields’ movement is huge part of his video game. If he’s minimal, it removes a crucial weapon for the Buckeyes.
Alabama: WR DeVonta Smith. The Heisman Prize winner has actually been close to unstoppable in the 2nd half of the season and had 3 more goals on 7 catches for 130 lawns versus Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl. Tide offending planner Steve Sarkisian gets one of the most out of Smith and keeps defenses thinking by lining him up broad, in the slot and typically sending him in movement.
INFORMATION & FIGURES
If Ohio State wins the nationwide championship, it will have played the least video games of any title winner because Minnesota in 1941 went 8-0. … Ohio State is 23-1 under second-year coach Ryan Day, consisting of 3 triumphes in 2018 when he filled out as acting coach while Urban Meyer was suspended … Saban invested 2 seasons in the early 1980s as an assistant coach with Ohio State under Earle Bruce. … Alabama QB Mac Jones has actually finished 77% of his passes. The NCAA record for a single season is held by Colt McCoy, who finished 76.7% of his includes 2008. … The Tide is the first string to have gamers with a minimum of 20 hurrying goals (Najee Harris, 24) and getting (Smith, 20).
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More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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question, you know it's been at least
15 years since I've been following the news, no 10 my folks do that, hmm. what was the question again !?
where you read about this ?
of course I can, it was here
on U-S-NEWS.COM
