National Championship Rubber Match!

When you come into a National Semi Final Championship game, there are expectations, high expectations that you want for your team, and for your fans, then you enter a game undefeated, and ranked 3^rd in the Nation, and you have an opportunity to showcase your team, and come up on the short end.

That’s what happened to Notre Dame in the 83^rd Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic in Arlington, Texas, against the number 2 ranked Clemson Tigers. This will be Clemson’s 3rd trip to the National Championship and they will face off with their arch nemesis, Alabama for the rubber match—Clemson has been on this stage before and once again their task will not be an easy one—since everyone says that “all roads to the championship goes through BAMA!”

For this game, this was one that Clemson showed that they not only belonged on this stage but owned this stage. They came out and found in the first 8 minutes that Notre Dame came to fight, were able to go toe to toe with them, tying the score at 3  a piece, and then Clemson opened the flood gates and scored 27 unanswered points, and that’s all it took for them to make their trip to the dance one more time.

What becomes of Notre Dame, is that the pollsters might have gotten it wrong. Well in some minds that is, the Fightin Irish just didn’t have enough in the tank to keep up with the Tigers, and fell to them in a way that most experts will say, might cost them next year, no matter what their record will be.

Undefeated might seem to be a lofty goal, and might get you a shot in the top four! HOWEVER, what really matters is that, you should really be in a conference, and as long as Notre Dame plays as an independent, they will have problems in the future.

Their basketball team, plays in the Big East conference, and does well there, but their football team, they have to pick and chose their opponents and book them years in advanced. They have stopped their rivalry with Michigan, but kept theirs with USC. They pick up teams like both Army and Navy, they even play Syracuse, but that’s still not enough umph to push them, into the top four for the up coming years.

There are those who think that Georgia, even though they lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game, should have been the fourth team in the standings, but because they did lose, and Oklahoma beat Texas in their BIG XII Championship, they were in the driver’s seat to be number four in the country.

Ok so lets look how this all shook out. Clemson beat Notre Dame and Alabama defeated Oklahoma, that left Georgia to play Texas in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, and the results were….. TEXAS number 15 in the country defeated Georgia 28-14, and there are some who are saying that this game catapulted Texas into the national spot light, and look for them to make some serious noise in the next few years.

For now however, the National Championship game will have a rematch once again between Clemson and Alabama, that has seen each team take a National title from each! For Dabo Sweeny and his Tigers, they will have something to prove, and for Nick Saban and his Crimson Tide, they will have to show the world that the Dynasty that they have in Alabama is real, and might just ROLL TIDE all over the Tigers.

But on the night that this all takes place, the TIGERS will once again show that they had the right game plan to take down Nick Saban and his Crimson Tide!

Congratulations to Clemson, National Champions for 2018!

Just a thought!