north dakota state won the national championship in college football in 2016.
north dakota state won the national championship in college football in 2016.
who won the national championship in college football in 2016?
north dakota state
in 2016, alabama came into the season ranked no. 1 in both preseason polls and finished the regular season 13–0, 8–0 sec. the crimson tide were ranked number one the entire season prior to their national championship appearance against clemson. alabama won the western division of sec and qualified to play in the 2016 sec championship game against the florida gators. alabama defeated the gators again in the rematch from the previous year's sec championship 54–16 in atlanta, georgia, clinching the program's 26th sec title. as the no. 1 seed in the third season of the college football playoff, the crimson tide were selected to play in the semifinal game at the 2016 peach bowl against no. 4 washington of the pac-12 conference. alabama beat the huskies 24–7, advancing them to the 2017 college football playoff national championship game against no. 2 clemson of the atlantic coast conference. the crimson tide lost to the tigers in the rematch from the previous year's college football playoff national championship 35–31 after deshaun watson threw the game-winning td pass to hunter renfrow with :01 left. the crimson tide finished the 2016 season with a record of 14–1.
2017 alabama crimson tide football team
the college football playoff national championship is a post-season college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the ncaa division i football bowl subdivision (fbs), which began play in the 2014 college football season. the game serves as the final of the college football playoff, a bracket tournament between the top four teams in the country as determined by a selection committee, which was established as a successor to the bowl championship series and its similar bcs national championship game. unlike the bcs championship, the participating teams in the college football playoff national championship are determined by two semi-final bowls—hosted by two of the consortium's six member bowls yearly—and the top two teams as determined by the selection committee do not automatically advance to the game in lieu of other bowls. this has caused a unique side effect in that, since the inception of the playoff, no #1 or #3 seed has won the national championship.
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