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Clemson vs Alabama Predictions
It’s already 2017, but the College Football Playoff championship game between Clemson and Alabama, a repeat from a year ago, is a fitting conclusion to the 2016 season in Division I football, between a team and a head coach trying to extend a historic era for the program, against a program that wants to begin an era just like that.
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Alabama Over Missouri – The Right SEC Champions & Playoff Team
The number one team in the country, Alabama, came away with another SEC title, beating Missouri 42-13 to make sure that no last minute surprises happen, with the strongest conference sending its champion into the playoff instead of an undeserving member.
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Florida State Over Georgia Tech – ACC Champions But Not Worthy of the Playoff
No matter what Florida State do, they’re not a team that played well enough to make the playoff, even after winning the ACC championship game with a 37-35 win over Georgia Tech. But they’re undefeated in a power five conference, not to mention the defending national champion, and so they’ll make it into the top 4 selected by the committee.
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Ohio State Over Wisconsin – Big Ten Champions & Deserving Playoff Team
Despite the predictions of doom in the week leading up to the game, Ohio State crushed it out of the ball park, beating Wisconsin 59-0 with Cardale Jones, a third-stringer, starting at quarterback and doing a perfect job of leading the Buckeyes to win the Big Ten Championship game and doing enough to make it into the playoff.
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Oregon Over Arizona – Better Team Pac-12 Champions; Going to the Playoff
It’s worth arguing that Oregon have been the best team in the nation for the last few years only rarely getting the opportunity to show it. Their Pac-12 Championship game win over Arizona, which packed style with revenge as Marcus Mariota showed everyone why he’s going to win the Heisman trophy, finally puts them in a position to win it all by making it into the College Football Playoff.
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The Teams in the 2014 NCAA Tournament National Championship Game
For the first time ever in Division I college basketball, the final of the NCAA Tournament will be between a #7, the UConn Huskies and a #8, the Kentucky Wildcats, seeds, in a championship game that only 0.01% of those with brackets predicted would come through.