By TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers

Some college football seasons end and you’re still wondering which team was the best.

2016: Clemson 35, Alabama 31.

2015: Alabama 45, Clemson 40

And, just to get a game in here that’s not Alabama/Clemson,

2005: Texas 41, USC 38. (And what a scrap THAT was.)

Fun games, but you figure one team would beat the other 5 of 10 or 6 of 10.

Some seasons, you’re not sure who was really the best.

But not last year.

Clemson 44, Alabama 16.

And not last night.

LSU 42, Clemson 25.

Some seasons end and you’re wondering which player was the best.

Not this year.

Joe Burrow could just wander from house to house below Highway 190 for the rest of his life and never have to buy a meal or sleep in a hotel or even get a real job

The guy was coming off a seven-touchdowns-thrown semifinal against Oklahoma. Seven. So when he takes all but one snap out of his own end zone in the Tigers’ first two possessions in the championship game, you figure maybe the magic will finally stop.

Neg. He passed for 463 yards, five TDs, no interceptions, rushed for 58 and a score. More than that he extended plays, fixed it, right there on the spot, when things broke down. Who has ever had a year more magical?

Clemson did hold him to 63 percent passing, down from his 77.6 percent completion rate for the season. But … if I were Clemson I wouldn’t even bring that up.

I thought Clemson had a shot. And they did, until a sloppy end (for Clemson) of the first half. But the thing is, LSU can just out-dude you. Dude here, dude there, dude everywhere. You drop one scrap of food on the floor and poof!, party’s over.

Who has ever seen an offense be this efficient for this long? It’s somewhere between ridiculous and remarkable.

You know what you do when you beat the defending champs by 17 to finish 15-0? Start breaking every city ordinance in the New Orleans book. The winners lit up cigars, complements of Karl Malone, whose son played at LSU. They smoked up the Superdome, and we all know that where there’s smoke, something’s on fire. Like the best team in the country. This year, it just wasn’t that close.

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