10 Reasons Alabama Will Beat Clemson

Here are 10 Reasons Why Alabama Will Beat Clemson and win back to back National Championships.

In the 2015 National Championship Game Alabama perfectly executed a precisely designed onsides kick.  It was the most dramatic play of the game. Some Clemson faithful combine the onsides kick with the final margin of five points and proclaim that without the onsides kick “fluke”, Clemson would have won.

Opposing team fans are entitled to make draw any conclusion they choose.  But the score of last year’s game was 45-33 until Clemson scored with 12 seconds left in the contest. At that point the Alabama defense was playing safe, conceding a score as long as it took Clemson most of the remaining time to get it. It was an almost meaningless touchdown.

From a comparative basis, the “real” gap between the 2015 teams was 12 points.   Nick Saban would say none of this matters, that neither of those 2015 teams is playing Monday night.

In the ebb and flow of college football,  new teams are built each season. Predicting any team’s performance from a single game, a year in the past is fruitless.

All that ever matters is the next play, in the next game, and then the next, and the next, until the whistle blows. Here are the 10 Reasons Alabama will win enough plays on Monday to repeat as National Champion.