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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 12th, 2016.

On today's extra bonus edition of the show, we'll talk about Alabama's 45 to 40 win over Clemson in the college football national championship game,

the Crimson Tides' fourth national title in the last seven years in Nick Sabin's fifth overall.

The key play of the game was Alabama's surprise onside kick in the fourth quarter. So we'll talk

about that and the greatness of Clemson quarterback to Sean Watson and a bunch of other stuff.

And here to talk about it with me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Good morning, Josh.

And joining us on the food from L.A. is Brian Curtis, ex of Slate and Grantland, and the University of Texas graduate, which means two of three of us have felt personally victimized and

violated by Nick Saban.

Good morning, Josh.

The Penn Quakers and Pelham Pelicans are next on the chopping block.

Yeah.

Good morning, Brian.

Good morning.

Before I got the list of title games in front of me, Brian, I had actually forgotten

about the 2014 game. I've tried to, you know, erase James Winston from my mind. But that was an amazing game. Florida State drove for the winning touchdown against Auburn with less than a minute to go. But even so, I think everyone exalts the Texas USC game from 2006. It's on every list as the greatest college football game of all

time. Texas beat USC 4138. They're both undefeated. You were at that game. Texas won because

USC could not stop Vince Young. He was 30 for 40 passing. He ran for 200 yards, including the

winning touchdown on fourth and five with

19 seconds to play. The game on Monday night was basically that game, except the team that

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