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All y'all frickers saying it's boring, if bama goes down 2 scores early, Y'all have Y'alls arse glue to the TV praying for Bama to lose. Go ahead admit it.

People will definitely notice, but would they actually care? The trajectory of either program will remained unchanged regardless of the outcome. Alabama will either have won their 5th title in 8 years or will have only won 4 in 8 years, having played in the title game 6 of 8 years. One more title for them isn't going to move the needle one way or the other. Same for Clemson, although I guess they do have more to gain than does Alabama. But them losing to Alabama isn't going to derail their program, and beating them isn't going to move them ahead of Alabama in the grand scheme. They have already established themselves as clear #1 and #2 programs in the country, and no one else is really all that close right now. A win or loss won't change that for either program, unlike the last time Clemson played Alabama in the title game.

People will certainly watch. However, I don't think nearly as many non-interested parties will have any real emotional attachment to this game Of course this board would troll Alabama if they lost. And Alabama will troll the board if they win. But that type of thing is a constant if an SEC team is playing.

This post was edited on 1/7/19 at 4:42 pm