Clemson had the ground advantage throughout, but it grew in the second half.
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The Tigers didn’t play a flawless Orange Bowl game – not even close – but they got the win and will be playing for their second National Title on January 11.
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However, with his team struggling badly to score goals, he has taken a short-term step to remedy the problem. His most prolific loan was at Wednesday – three goals in 13 outings.
For the second year in a row, the Sooners (11-2) ended their season with a loss to Clemson. Clemson defeated Oklahoma 37-17 to advance to the championship game. But Mayfield also threw an interception while on the move.
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That followed a tweet from Sturridge on Sunday in which he declared himself “good to go” – a claim Klopp later sought to downplay. It’s about the jersey, it’s the club. “Of course, we have the new stadium which is very important”, Bilic said.
Tigers quarterback Deshaun Watson has deservedly garnered attention for keeping Clemson ideal all season with his excellence as a true dual-threat field general.
In the third quarter, the Tigers really began to enforce their will. Zac Brooks had Tigers fans roaring when he ran over Sooners safety Ahmad Thomas on a sweep.
Perine was held to 58 yards on 15 runs and Joe Mixon was a non-factor running three times for four yards. RB Wayne Gallman added 150 yards and a couple of TD’s to add to the scoring.
Ford said those who picked Oklahoma to win, “didn’t know what they were talking about”. The second game was worse: 5.8 million people saw one or more of 464,000 tweets.
The defeat was the Sooners’ first since they were beaten by rival Texas in October. The Tigers will now have the opportunity to defeat another name-brand program and, as they say, “To be the best, you have to beat the best”. This year, just 6.5 million people saw one or more of 487,000 tweets sent about the game. “But we weren’t tonight”. “If we can dominate on both sides of the ball up front, it’s going to be a very easy game for us”. It was the highlight, but the real story was the unflappable foundation that Swinney and his staff have built over the last seven years, filling in the gaps around the talented skill position players to build something sustainable. “That’s what hurt the most”. In case you missed it, Alabama steam-rolled over Michigan State by a score of 38-0.
It was another December disappointment for Mayfield, who voiced his displeasure with not being invited to NY as a Heisman Trophy finalist.
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“Everybody wants to talk about who’s left and what you don’t have”.
“We shocked them, didn’t we?” a beaming Swinney said. “At times he was scrambling around and waiting for something to come open”.
Later on the same drive, a fake punt fooled the Sooners and turned the game around.
A team once known for such inexplicable stumbles that a derisive term was coined for it Clemsoning blew out the No. 4 Sooners over the final two quarters after trailing 17-16 at halftime.
“I think a year ago when we came to this game, we were happy just to take part in the game”, Alabama coach Nick Saban said following the game. “We were late getting to the guy down the boundary – it was our lack of execution”.
This undefeated season was not a fluke, and neither was a 37-17 beatdown of a playoff-worthy Oklahoma. Parker was beaten on a short route by Hunter Renfrow and slipped to the turf, and the result was a 35-yard touchdown to put the Tigers up 30-17. OU did have a good punt development when a Seibert kick was downed at the 4-yard line, but even then, Clemson embarked on a 96-yard touchdown drive. Alabama won all three of those title games.
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“Most everybody on the team is coming back, so this is the beginning of next year”, senior linebacker Frank Shannon said. For this Tiger team, a championship run was always going to be about the defense.
