Tonight, in the Louisiana Superdome, a college football season that kicked off in late August 2019 (Florida Gators vs. Miami Hurricanes played the first FBS (f/k/a Division I) game of the season on August 24th), finally comes to an end.
The Bayou Bengals of Louisiana State University, the top-ranked team in the country, the undefeated SEC champions, led by their charismatic coach, Ed Orgeron, and their Heisman-Trophy-winning quarterback, Joe Burrow, will attempt to put a bow on a 15-0 season by winning the National Championship in what amounts to a home game.
Squarely in the path of Destiny's Darlings stands the Clemson University Tigers, the disrespected-as-per-Dabo, defending national champions. Their 14-0 record this season matches their feline counterparts from LSU. However, this year's undefeated record is the second consecutive one that their coach, Dabo Swinney, and their dazzling quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, have posted.
Clemson has not lost a game since Alabama defeated the Tigers in the National Playoff Semi-Final on January 1, 2018, which game was also played at the Superdome in New Orleans. Between that night's game and tonight's game, Clemson has played twenty-nine games and has won each of them. Lawrence? He has not lost a game since November, 2017, his senior year in high school, when his unbeaten Cartersville, Georgia Purple Hurricanes had their 41-game unbeaten streak snapped in the second round of the state playoffs.
I have no rooting interest in tonight's game. Truthfully, I do not know how much of it I will watch. I have not watched a college football national championship game in its entirety in twenty-nine years. No matter how tonight's game end and no matter which team wins there is no way that I will enjoy this game's ending as much as I enjoyed that one...
-AK
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