History will be made on Monday night at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans when top-ranked LSU, in a de facto home game, faces No. 3 Clemson in the College Football Playoff national championship game. The CFP debuted in the 2014 season and neither a No. 1 nor No. 3 has ever won the title. LSU is a 6.5-point favorite. It is 5-1 ATS in its past six neutral-site games as a favorite.

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The top seed is 0-3 in the game, including No. 1 Alabama losing last year to No. 2 Clemson. The No. 3 has played in the title game once, with No. 3 Georgia losing in overtime to No. 4 Alabama following the 2017 season. In addition, no team has repeated in the CFP era as Clemson aims to do. It also won the title following the 2016 campaign. LSU aims for its first national title since the 2007 season, when it beat Ohio State also in New Orleans.

This is a matchup of Tigers who also nickname their home stadiums Death Valley: Clemson’s Memorial Stadium and LSU’s Tiger Stadium. The two teams got here in very different fashion.