Notre Dame vs. Alabama championship game: here's a key match-up on the line

Alabama center Barrett Jones vs. ND nose guard Louis Nix

... this is the part of football that should get you pumped up. Sure, watching the little jitterbugs on the edge juke around is cute, but this is the type of battle that gets my football motor going. Two monsters in the trenches, getting after each other on a play-in and play-out basis. This is what football is all about.

And here's a NY Times article about Nix, who is 6'3" and 320 lbs. -

Winning Is No Laughing Matter for Notre Dame’s Nix