clemson won the national championship in college football last year.
clemson won the national championship in college football last year.
who won the national championship in college football last year?
clemson
the last four matchups between the squads had national championship implications and have greatly intensified the rivalry. the teams squared off in the 2016 college football playoff national championship in glendale, arizona, with alabama emerging with a thrilling 45–40 victory. the next year, the teams again found themselves doing battle in the 2017 college football playoff national championship in tampa, florida, with clemson emerging with a thrilling 35–31 victory and their first win over the crimson tide since 1905. once again the teams did battle in the 2018 sugar bowl in new orleans, louisiana with a trip to the 2018 college football playoff national championship game on the line. alabama won the contest by a score of 24–6. in the build-up to the 2018 sugar bowl, players and coaches from both teams referred to the series as a "respectful" rivalry. the next week, on january 8, 2018, alabama would win the national championship over georgia by a close score of 26–23, their 5th title in 9 seasons and 17th title overall. the two teams met again in the 2019 college football playoff national championship, the fourth playoff match-up in the series in as many years, and the third to be in a championship game. clemson blew out alabama 44–16 in that meeting, to win their 3rd title, and their 2nd in 3 years.
alabama–clemson football rivalry
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.
college football playoff national championship