Mostly sunny wednesday and cold. Highs middle 40s, overnight lows in the lower to middle 20s. Keeping an eye on our next storm system that fight for the College Football National Title. As both teams take the field at university of phoenix stadium tonight. Theyll be lining up to play their 15th game of the season. When the tigers won the 1981 crown. They played only 12 games. Now with the addition of conference championship games and a four team playoff. That adds three more games to the schedule. That means more wear and tear on the student athletes. We finished the season playing 10 in a row, and the last stretch of that was a challenge because this is obviously a physical game, and its mentally taxing, and the balance of school and all those things, but our guys did as good a job as they could handling that. We were able to really get our team physically and mentally and emotionally think the timing of this has been excellent because its almost like weve got ready for the opener aga
Everyone is getting set up here in glendale. Theres a ton of media but theres tens of thousands of fans as well. And the energy is contagious as we get closer to kickoff. For the First Time Since 1981, clemson leads the nation in total victories for the season that was also the last year they went to the National Title game and won. Spectators say this game is going to come down to clemsons offense and alabamas defense. Clemsons Quarterback Deshaun Watson has nearly 34hundred yards passing and over one thousand yards rushing. But if you look at alabamas secondary they have forced 21 turnovers, 16 interceptions and 5 fumbles in the past 11 games. Both teams say the key is focus going into this game and performing at their best. But the real treat is having a stadium filled with tens of thousands of fans cheering you on. Fans, no matter what color theyre wearing, say the energy is like none theyve ever experienced. The plane ride. You see someone at the airport like an alabama fan and yo
Covers alabama for our sister station wtvm, rick as you can imagine there are media members from all over the country covering the big game in glendale, including paul stockman, he is a sports anchor reporter at one of our raycom sister station at wtvm in georgia. Paul, thanks a lot for joining us. Paul its great to be here rick, its a little colder than i thought. Rick yes, cold and rainy not the type of weather i was expecting. Okay lets talk a little bit about football, you covered alabama tell us why the crimson tide will beat clemson and win their 16th national championship. Paul i tell you what, it all starts with number 2 in the backfield, Derrick Henry, the Heisman Trophy winner for a reason. I know Everybody Loves Deshaun Watson in your area i gotta say Derrick Henry earned that right. Four 200 yard games he carries the load for this entire offense. Then defensively, alabamas front four is going to be Something Like Deshaun Watson hasnt seen all very physical. They shut down t
I follow him. Come. Love to. Are we invited . Really . Wow. Natalie, now im officially jealous, today, monday, january 11, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Golden Globes with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from los angeles. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special edition of today on this monday morning after the Golden Globes from los angeles. Im Savannah Guthrie. Weve got willie geist here. Matt is on assignment heading to the white house and sitting down with the president. Well do the show from the white house tomorrow, and i think we all thought wed be talking about the Golden Globes and inside this sad news about david bowie. Yes. So much talk last night at all these parties. The news rushed through the room that david bowie had died, and, guys, were going down this list of songs. We dont have time to begin to list all his hits. Space odyssey, changes, rebel, rebel. Rebel, rebel. Somebody who really changed the landscape of m
The tigers are seeking the programs second title. Dabo says saban and alabama set the standard for College Football. Saban gives dabo props for leading the tigers to the number one ranking. Our players are very excited about the opportunity theyve created for themselves to have a chance to participate in the College Football playoff against arguably the best team in College Football, which is the clemson tigers. Our focus and attention is to try to play the best game we possibly can, which is probably what were going to need to have success. This was our goal was to have the opportunity to compete at the highest level, and not only are we getting a chance to do that, but were getting a chance to play the university of alabama, which to me has been the standard in College Football for a long time, but certainly since coach saban has been there. Theyve just been incredibly consistent. The tigers and crimson tide first played football in 19 hundred. Clemson won that game 35nothing. Series