Now we wait to see if the senior, a former transfer from Florida State, can run it back again on January 11 against Clemson.
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Clemson playing for a title, and for history
The top-ranked Clemson Tigers are going home Orange Bowl champions after a win over the No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners on Thursday. Oklahoma senior center Ty Darlington believed he and his teammates were about to play the game of their lives.
College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock told the AP he was still awaiting the results of the New Year’s Day games.
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(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong). Those games represented the biggest cable TV audiences ever, until the championship game with Oregon-Ohio State topped it with 33 million viewers. Tigers quarterback Deshaun Watson ran for a touchdown and threw for another while rolling up 332 total yards. For all the talk of “The Big 10 is so awesome” “The Big 10 is the best conference”, “Michigan State is the team that can win it all”…no, the Big 10 is still just that, the Big 10.
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Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff, and Christian McCaffrey nearly won the Heisman Trophy. In the new playoff format, however, there is more to come.
McCaffrey caught a 75-yard touchdown pass on the opening snap and returned a punt 66 yards for another score while setting the Rose Bowl record with 368 all-purpose yards, propelling No. 5 Stanford to a 45-16 victory over the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes on Friday. A season that seemed to lack a Godzilla team has come upon a monster final. “We’ve got to finish”.
“I think our defensive front probably affected the quarterback a little bit”, Alabama coach Nick Saban said.
“They were getting down. Apparently the games were too late”. He was accurate, he was confident, he played better than he had all season.
“I wouldn’t say I was in shock, (but) it was like, ‘Dang, already?'” Stanford left tackle Kyle Murphy said. A few drives of 22 plays, as they produced to close out the Big Ten Championship Game against Iowa, would really help. “But we kind of knew going in those are run-pass options. It lit a fire under him, although he’s already the hardest-working man and most motivated man”.
Jones also scored a touchdown on a punt return that put the game out of reach. But Lane Kiffin began to pick on the Spartans on the perimeter and eventually MSU’s defense got blown open by the night’s most unlikely hero, Jake Coker.
Alabama is playing for another title after being upset by Ohio State in the semifinals of the inaugural College Football Playoff.
It was Coker who got the ball rolling toward Alabama’s first official Cotton Bowl win since 1982 and kept it rolling. But, every year after his first year as a coach for the Crimson Tide they have been in the National Picture conversation. Embattled coach Tommy Bowden resigned after six games, and Swinney – who was in charge of receivers – took over as head coach. The next time we did it, that’s when we hit the big play. Can’t blame Coker for looking at Ridley first. Spartan QB Connor Cook was beat up all night long with a hellacious pass rush from the Tide defensive line and Alabama did it the majority of the game without having to blitz which was huge for pass coverage down the field. It was a 63-yard drive that ended at the one.
Calvin Ridley makes a move. That might be his greatest accomplishment of all. If you thought it was going to be tough beating Alabama before a CFP semifinal rout of Michigan State, the task ahead for Venables and his defense got even tougher with Tide quarterback Jake Coker’s performance against the Spartans.
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The play has a name: Hawkeye. Placekicker Adam Griffith connected on a 47-yard field goal to give the Tide a 10-0 lead with 1:25 left in the half.
