CLEMSON will meet Alabama in U.S. college football’s championship game after both recorded convincing victories in Thursday’s decisive bowl games. The Tigers moved to 14-0 after dominating the No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners 37-17 in the Capital One Orange Bowl.
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He reminded them all they needed to do was go home and win two games. “I grew up a really big historian of the game”, Bryant said. Bryant finished with a team-high 20 points in the Lakers 108-98 loss and said that he was moved by the cheers from the crowd.
It was Clemson 37, Oklahoma 17 on Thursday night in the Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium and, no, the game really wasn’t that close.
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Now 14-0, Clemson will play either Alabama or Michigan State on January 11 for the title.
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The game started off fast as David Desharnais got a quick goal past Tuukka Rast off of a face off 1:14 into the first period. Eyewitness News spoke with several fans who said they are rooting for the Bruins during the big game on New Year’s Day.
Now, he’s got the Tigers within one win of their first national title since 1981.
Until this season, the Tigers were known for such inexplicable disappointments that a term was coined for it – Clemsoning.
Clemson fans cheer before the team arrived to play against Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl NCAA semifinal college football game Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
There’s no ACC basketball tonight so we thought we’d take New Years as a chance to congratulate Clemson for beating Oklahoma and advancing to the finals of the college football playoffs, where they’ll play mighty Alabama, where Nick Saban has done the near impossible and escaped the shadow of Bear Bryant.
Clemson’s 300-yard run game versus Oklahoma was no fluke.
“August 3rd, when we started the season, I gave them shirts that said ‘Dream the Dream, ‘” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. Steele seemed to recognize the weirdness of this – the impossibility of pretending that the College Football Playoff was as big as ESPN desperately needs it to be when it was obvious millions upon millions of Americans weren’t paying a lick of attention to it – and kept assuring us that, don’t worry, the crowds in Times Square are all watching the games on their WatchESPN app. I felt bad for her.
The Tigers went up 10-7 in the second quarter on a 5-yard touchdown run by Watson, capping a seven-play, 96-yard drive. He went out with a knee injury in the opening minutes and watched the rest of the game from the bench. No team has played better against tougher competition than Alabama since its loss to Ole Miss.
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Clemson’s defense harassed star Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield, sacking him five times, intercepting him twice and ultimately knocking him out of the game late in the fourth quarter.
“We’re not anxious about who we play”, said linebacker Ben Boulware, named the defensive MVP.
The Tigers were almost ideal in the second half while outscoring the Sooners 21-0.
Alabama looked like a team with no weaknesses against Michigan State.
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Ridley was brilliant, streaking by defenders on deep throws and outfighting them on jump balls. He finished with 75 yards but did score two touchdowns. “But I’m very proud of how far we came”. Dalvin Cook was held to only 33 yards on 18 carries, and with the defense taking care of their end of the deal, Greg Ward Jr. with a touchdown pass and two rushing touchdowns didn’t have too much work to do. “They’re going to have a scheme and try to contain me, but I’ve still got a job to do”. Lawson said Thursday, however, that the alleged altercation did not happen and that Oklahoma initiated the war of words between the two teams.
