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Before the Tigers’ run to the championship tilt last season, Clemson last played for a national championship in 1981.
Clemson might have one-upped Alabama by following up Saturday night with a 31-0 victory over Ohio State, the first time the Buckeyes have been shut out since 1993 and the first time a team coached by Urban Meyer had ever been held off the scoreboard. ‘Bama’s defense is loaded with future National Football League talent and have scored a ridiculous 11 touchdowns (ELEVEN!) on turnovers. However, Clemson was among the nation’s most generous teams at giveaways, as the Tigers lost 26 turnovers in 14 contests. Sure, we’ll all wonder how Penn State would’ve done if they’d been facing the Tigers instead of Ohio State. “I don’t think they’re going to do much different”. “That’s all we can ask for”. Now in his ninth season in Tuscaloosa, the 65-year-old is aiming to equal Alabama great Bear Bryant’s record of six national championships. With that said, it’s clear that those placing early bets love the value of Clemson against the spread on January 9 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
The Tigers wanted another shot at Alabama all along. And then Deshaun Watson is a better player right now than he was a year ago. You aren’t going to short pass your way to a win either, because it gives them too much time to force a mistake. You just got to keep pushing and keep pushing.
Hurts has started 13 of the Tide’s 14 games; Blake Barnett started the opener against USC, and Hurts came in on Alabama’s third possession.
That didn’t stop the questions about both subjects from coming early and often at Clemson’s last media availability before departing for Tampa with a chance to atone for all the things that went wrong in the 2016 game.
Watson did all he could a year ago in the loss against Alabama as he threw for 405 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 73 yards.
Calvin Ridley and ArDarius Stewart, and tight end O.J. Howard, the Offensive MVP of last season’s national championship game. “I mean, when you look at the way last season played out for us and them, and then you look at the way that this year played out between us and them – it seems like someone upstairs is on our side”, offensive lineman Jay Guillermo said.
“He got some controversy going and I was upset”, she said.
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The big, bad Alabama defense is enough to make any offense consider the dangers to its own personal safety, and that intimidation factor is also a weapon. A win over Alabama next Monday night would put Swinney above some of the other notable head coaches who are mentioned when discussing the sport’s best, such as Chris Petersen and Mark Dantonio.
