super bowl. this one even more improbable because cincinnati stunk a couple years ago. they ve stunk for most of the last 31 years. you go back to 1988. after that we had this huge period of darkness in the 90s where the bengals were the worst team in the nfl. they were pretty good from 05 to 2015. they were bad last year. the expectation this season was they would be better, but nowhere close to this. pretty remarkable. what is it? what allowed them to deliver? number 9, joe burrow. very few things in sports, very few things in life live up to the hype or exceed it. joe burrow has done that. we watched this kid in college when he was at lsu. we knew the bengals would have the number one overall pick. we watched him in college in the college football playoff and he torched oklahoma and he lit up clemson. we started looking at each
champion alabama crimson tide inspired his classmates to overwhelm previously undefeated south carolina with the final bama 73, south carolina 55. a nail biter in norman as oklahoma barely hangs on against instate rival oklahoma state 74-72. next to a hot one in greenville with a fired up clemson taking on number nine duke, who s won five in a row the tigers managed to battle and take this one 68-63. the golden state warriors took one on the chin from the 15 and 24 denver nuggets snapping a seven game winning streak. not even steph curry s 38 could save them from a 112-110 denver win. after losing the national championship to alabama along with his undefeated season, clemson head football coach has something to smile about. he becomes the first acc coach to be honored with the paul bear bryant coach of the year award named in honor of the late alabama coaching legend. a new report on which foods could help many men replace viagra of all things.