Well college football fans the season has come to an end once again and Alabama Crimson Tide has won the National Championship once again as they beat the Clemson Tigers 45-40. A good game indeed and it look like Clemson was gonna go up 21-7 on Alabama after DeShaun Watson threw 2 touchdowns to Wr Hunter Reinfrow. Clemson qb Deshaun Watson has 405 passing yards and 4 tds, and 73 yards rushing, something that Alabama Defense struggle with the whole night. The biggest surprise of the night was O.J. Howard 5 rec and 208 yards and 2 tds and the Clemson defense had no answer for the 6’6 tight end. Twice Howard caught the ball and scamper into the endzone. Alabama Derrick Henry had a good game 36 carries 158 yards and 3 tds, and his first touchdown Derrick ran right up the middle for a long touchdown in the first quarter. Qb Jake Coker had a rough first half, sitting in the pocket dancing around and then getting sacked, not a good situation, Coker still threw for 335 yards and 2 tds.
The two special team plays bailed out Alabama, the 95 yard kickoff return by Kenyan Drake and then the onside kick that changed the game when Nick Saban decided to do an onside kick by Adam Griffith as Marlon Humphrey caught the kick over the 50 yard line, it look like a pass to Humphrey. Clemson had busted coverages all year-long, you cant have busted coverages and win the game, you cannot bounce back from that even if you have a DeShaun Watson. Watson had the better game then Henry, I would say Watson was the better player of the night, they could not stop this fellow, the best Defense in the country could not stop DeShaun Watson. Clemson QB Watson scooted pass Alabama’s D plenty of times, he would run around in the backfield and scamper off 10 yard runs. DeShaun Watson will be the next biggest quarterback in the NFL, the QB is that good, he had Alabama defense on their heels the whole night, if it wasn’t for the 2 special team plays by Alabama, Clemson could have won this game. Clemson Coach Dado Swinney did a good job of coaching as Clemson could have pulled off the upset, funny Clemson no.1 in the nation for a while, but was the underdog vs Alabama in the National Championship Game.
According to David Pollack Clemson could of won the game if Clemson would have scored a touchdown, but they had to settle for a field goal. The biggest keys of the game that won the game for Alabama was special team plays and the Clemson Defense leaving O.J. Howard wide open changed the face of the game that led to Alabama to a National Championship. Alabama Coach Nick Saban has won his 5 national titles, his 4th Natty with Alabama in 7 years which is very dominant. In the last 8 years Saban is the best coach of all time, even Bear Bryant didn’t win 4 titles in 7 years, that’s alot of titles and a very dominant Football Program. Clemson deserves alot of credit as they put up a game because they did have the Alabama D on their heels, the only team that did that the whole season was the Ole Miss Rebels, which they won the game. The Alabama Crimson Tide are no.1 in college football again.