'This is for everybody': LSU caps perfect season with national title win over Clemson

Posted Jan 14, 2020
Cigar clippings were scattered on the locker-room floor, a haze of smoke flooded the air and LSU quarterback Joe Burrow emerged with a stogie between his fingers and a smirk across his face. There was no more appropriate celebration for the nation's newest college football champions, the 42-25 victors over Clemson in the National Championship Game. (Baton Rouge Advocate)

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