“The focus that the players had for this game was completely different than we ever had before, and I think it paid off for them”, Saban said late Thursday.
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Clemson will play 2nd ranked Alabama after their 38-0 win over Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The Tigers took care of Oklahoma 37-17 in the earlier semifinal Thursday.
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Defense Dominates Michigan State never went into positive rushing yards until late in the third quarter and never got the rushing game going at all. He was let go in 2000 after head coach Gene Stallings was sacked.
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The Mountaineers kept going at Brown, though, and Shelton Gibson blew past him for a 59-yard touchdown in the second quarter. Both teams exchanged touchdowns in the first overtime period, followed by a pair of field goals in the second overtime.
As he stood in the middle of a jubilant Clemson locker room following the Tiger’s win in the Orange Bowl Thursday night, Dabo Swinney wasn’t ready to start thinking about his team’s next challenge.
This season was a huge upgrade, but it ended with the same result in a dismal loss to Clemson at bowl time. The first, in the second quarter, set Alabama up for a 1-yard touchdown by Henry on the next play for the first points of the game.
Ford said those who picked Oklahoma to win, “didn’t know what they were talking about”. But we made some big plays on offense.
College football has changed quite a bit since the ’48 Gator Bowl against Missouri, when, “As coach Howard said we humiliated them 14-13”, Prince said. Wide receiver Calvin Ridley caught eight balls for 138 yards and two scores, both coming during a third-quarter barrage. UA anticipated Michigan State would scheme to try to contain Heisman Trophy victor Derrick Henry and built a game plan accordingly.
When I asked Kiffin how much his head coaching jobs had damaged his image, he said, “Obviously it did”. Scoring grabs of 50 and 6 yards by Ridley were sandwiched around cornerback Cyrus Jones’ 57-yard punt-return touchdown. Cook tried to recall them again while riding through the halls of AT&T Stadium on his way to talk about his last game as a Spartan.
Clemson is more athletic than Michigan State at nearly every position. Cook completed 19 of 39 attempts for 210 yards and a pair of interceptions. “The pass rush was there”.
Aside from Cook, several other seniors will also be moving on. He said his sore shoulder was fully healed and that he doesn’t need offseason surgery. None of it worked, the Spartans producing 215 total yards and just 29 on the ground. The front seven owned the line of scrimmage, living in the Spartans backfield and sacking Connor Cook four times.
When Michigan State co-defensive coordinator Harlon Barnett said the two teams were mirror images of one another this week, he wasn’t imaging this kind of rout. “That’s the first time all year that happened”. Alabama happened to be the best team in the country at sacking the quarterback and stopping the run. It led to a Watson rushing touchdown that gave Clemson its first lead at 10-7. Wayne Gallman rushed for 150 yards and a pair of TDs. The big tailback was just a role player against a Spartans defense stacked to stop the run.
Ridley’s ability to exploit Michigan State’s secondary while putting up his best stats of the year allowed him to finish 2015 with 1,031 yards, a single season record for an Alabama freshman.
Michigan State’s run defense has been stingy, especially in big games against Ohio State and Iowa, but the 6-foot-3, 242-pound Henry is unlike any back the Spartans have faced.
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Alabama puts its 14-game non-conference home-winning streak on the line against Norfolk State on Saturday. The Spartans (12-2) won the Big Ten and reached the playoff, and Michigan State fans can look back on three of the most pulsating victories in the program’s history.
