page_title: 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship
section_title: Starting lineups
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship / Starting lineups
caption_attribution_description: English: University of Alabama Football is huge. The name of the football program is Alabama Crimson Tide. The team currently competes in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Southeastern Conference. Since beginning play in 1892, the program has claimed 13 national championships. This is what is called A-Day, which is a Spring scrimmage or a practice session for the Alabama football team. 92,000 Alabama Football fans attended the game. There was no admission fee. Most of the fans wore crimson and white with the name of the football team on their garments. Even the children were all decked out in the teams colors. Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watches all the plays during this important spring scrimmage.
context_page_description: The 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that determined a national champion of NCAA Division I FBS college football for the 2015 season. It was played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on January 11, 2016, and was the culminating game of the 2015–16 bowl season.
  The game was played between the winners of two pre-designated semifinal bowls played on December 31, 2015: the No. 1 Clemson Tigers, who beat the No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners 37–17 at the Orange Bowl, coached by Dabo Swinney in his 8th season, and the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide, who shut out the No. 3 Michigan State Spartans 38–0 at the Cotton Bowl Classic, coached by Nick Saban.
  The 13–1 Alabama Crimson Tide won the game, holding off the undefeated Clemson Tigers 45–40 in the fourth quarter. Accompanied by a talented receiving corps, Clemson's Heisman Finalist quarterback Deshaun Watson had a historic performance, setting the record for most total yards in national championship game history, with 478 yards against the nation's third-ranked defense in Alabama, breaking the record previously set by Vince Young in the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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caption: Alabama head coach Nick Saban
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