The LSU Tigers are the 2020 college football national champions.
NEW ORLEANS — No. 1 LSU overcame a sluggish start to beat No. 3 Clemson 42-25 in a battle of unbeaten teams at the Superdome to capture the program's third national championship since 2003 and the first under coach Ed Orgeron.
There was a time on Monday night when the two national powers circled one another like heavyweights, trading punts like jabs as the pair eased into the national championship game.Comfort zone established with minutes left in the first quarter, the matchup of college football's last two unbeaten teams met pregame expectations. Behind two elite quarterbacks and a wealth of NFL-ready talent, LSU and Clemson began trading more serious blows as the offenses took over the spotlight.
Clemson would draw within a field goal at 28-25 but LSU would respond again, taking a 35-25 lead into the fourth quarter. And on a drive early in the fourth quarter, Burrow threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to push LSU ahead 42-25 and force Clemson into a tight corner. The championship game was played in front of a pro-LSU crowd, though the advantage was not as wide as predicted: Clemson fans took up a significant portion of the Superdome, bringing some balance to what was expected to be a more hostile neutral-site environment.You had Burrow, the Heisman winner, on one side. An elite prospect of his own in Lawrence on the other. Combined, you may have been watching the top overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft and the top pick in the 2021 draft.
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