BREAKING NEWS Alabama is the college football champion after beating Clemson, 45-40. It has four titles since 2009.
Nick Saban won his fourth national title in seven seasons on Monday night, and his fifth over all, with an Alabama team headlined by Derrick Henry, the second Tide player, after Mark Ingram Jr., to win the Heisman Trophy. The Heismans bookending Saban’s first and fourth titles since 2009 buttress the belief outside Tuscaloosa, Ala., that Saban is the beneficiary of bountiful talent.
Who couldn’t coach an Ingram or a Henry, right? Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney took a scythe to that sentiment. “Not everybody can coach a great team,” he said on the eve of Monday’s championship game at University of Phoenix Stadium. “Not everybody can coach a great player, and I think that he has a gift to be able to do that.”
Henry contributed 158 yards rushing and three touchdowns to ignite Alabama’s 45-40 victory against Clemson. Along the way, he supplanted Shaun Alexander as the Tide’s career rushing yards leader by breaking his record of 3,565 yards.
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