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By Jordan Morey | @JordanAMorey Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — Growing up in small-town southern Georgia, Stetson Bennett IV would often listen to old clips on YouTube of Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Larry Munson calling Bulldogs football games. Bennett wasn’t born until 18 years after the University of Georgia claimed its last national championship, but it …

We gathered at a hotel just outside of Dallas to get an inside look at how the College Football Playoff committee selects its top 25 each week, seeds each team and slots the four-team playoff and New Year’s Six Bowls. We sat in the same meeting room the committee uses each fall, complete with individual …

By Justin Byers | @Justin_A_Byers Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – Jonah Williams has set out to prove that a measurement doesn’t indicate his ability to make plays on the football field. Williams, a unanimous first-team All-American offensive tackle for the University of Alabama team that reached the championship game of the College Football Playoff …

Watching the first five minutes of the 2019 College Football National Championship produce 21 combined points, I sat back in awe. I’ve been lucky enough to cover college football for the past five years, but I’d never seen a game start, or finish, quite like this one. After the roller-coaster-like first several drives my advisor, …

Josh Roller | @Roller_01 Editor’s note: Sports Capital Journalism Program student Josh Roller, writing for Newsday, discusses the familiarity Alabama and Clemson share as they prepare to meet in the national championship for the third time in four years at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Read the full story here.  

Robby General | @rgeneraljr Editor’s note: Sports Capital Journalism Program student Robby General, writing for Newsday, compares the young quarterback battle between Tua Tagovailoa of Alabama and Trevor Lawrence of Clemson that will face-off in the 2019 National Championship Game.  Read full story here. 

By Mike Williams | @MikeWritesSport Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — Ohio State’s controversial football season, which involved the university community in a contentious national conversation about domestic abuse, ended with the celebration of a 37thBig Ten conference championship, and third in five seasons, after a 45-24 victory over Northwestern Saturday night at Lucas Oil …

By Joe Spears | @joe_spears7 Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA — Nick Saban walked off the field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium as the coach of a national champion for the sixth time. Before Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide completed their come-from-behind, 26-23 overtime victory over the Georgia Bulldogs, only one coach in the modern history of college …

By Jon Sauber | @JonSauber Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA – With his Alabama Crimson Tide trailing, 13-0, at halftime of the College Football Playoff National Championship and the Georgia Bulldogs in position to take control of the game, many successful college coaches would not have had the conviction to make the decision that Alabama’s …

By Jon Sauber | @JonSauber Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA — DeVonta Smith hauled in a 41-yard strike from Tua Tagovailoa, just before his body crossed the goal line, to complete one of the most remarkable comebacks in the history of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Smith threw a hand in the air as he sprinted, …