Clemson (14-0) will play for the national title on January 11 in Glendale, Ariz.
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Top-ranked Clemson and No. 2 Alabama will face off in the desert for the national championship after dominating wins in the College Football Playoff semifinals Thursday. Some pre-bowl assistant coaching changes are very meaningful, but this isn’t one of those situations.
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They started the game slowly, when starting it aggressively and assertively might well have forced the Bills into full retreat. This was a rough way to end a good season for the Jets. “It’s not because of where it was, but because of what was at stake”.
Clemson pulled within 7-3 on kicker Greg Huegel’s 26-yard field goal. “Ohio State was able to get up for MI, but that was a rivalry game”. It would have made hellish work of the computations of the College Football Playoff selection committee. Next season, they’ll be equipped to take the final one.
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Helfrich, revisiting his comments from the day before, shouldered responsibility for the Ducks’ second-half collapse against TCU. At halftime of the Alamo Bowl, with nothing going in TCU’s favor and down 31 points , Patterson broke out all the stops.
Michigan State got their butts bruised tonight in a nationally televised spanking administered over the collective knee of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
On a balmy evening in south Florida, the orange-clad Clemson faithful gobbled up at least three-fourths of the seats at Sun Life Stadium, turning what was supposed to be a neutral-site game into Death Valley South.
“This is nice”, Watson said of his Offensive MVP trophy, “but we want the big award – the national (championship)”. “I think that’s what it showed”.
Clemson cornerback Cordrea Tankersley (25) tackles Oklahoma wide receiver Dede Westbrook (11), during the first half of the Orange Bowl NCAA college football semifinal playoff game, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Watson quickly brought Clemson into the redzone after converting a 3rd-and-long, but he forced a pass to Jordan Leggett that was intercepted in the endzone. It ranked in the top 20 natinally in scoring offense, scoring defense, total offense and total defense. Oklahoma went to the locker room with a 17-16 lead after Mark Andrews hauled in an 11-yard touchdown pass from Mayfield with 1:34 remaining, and the Sooners defence came up with a pick in the end zone on an ill-advised throw by Watson into triple-coverage. Sooners center Ty Darlington said afterward that “it wasn’t about them pushing us around”, but it sure looked like it.
Clemson will do that in a big way if it can hold off the Crimson Tide defense, which limited Michigan State to 29 yards rushing. So it was going to take time. These guys finish. We know how to finish.
“Of course other teams talk, but that’s not how we do things at Alabama”. But try to predict how it happens, and you might as well buy yourself a lottery ticket because anything is possible.
Boykin missed two game in November, against Oklahoma and Kansas.
As Edwards said, there was “no shame” in the Irish’s two losses – 24-22 at Clemson in early October and 38-36 at Stanford in late November.
Said cornerback Marlon Humphrey of his team, “We have good everything on this team”. “The public liked Alabama”, Avello said.
That defensive front insists that it be so, as would the nation’s foremost unit of any kind, a rotating menace chockablock with dynamic sorts.
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If that wasn’t enough of a downer, playing the semifinal games December 31 left what is traditionally the biggest day of the season – New Year’s Day – feeling like a bit of an afterthought, not all that different than staging the championship game in women’s basketball 24 hours after the men play for the title at the Final Four.
Even if Alabama wins, things have changed a bit.
Perine, meanwhile, proved his true freshman season was no fluke and that he could pile up rushing yards out of virtually any offense.
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ESPN tried to make the best of the situation, pointing out that streaming views for the Orange and Cotton were up over last year’s games.
