On Thursday night, the Crimson Tide went out and proved it with a 38-0 semifinal scalding of Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl.
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“It’s like we can’t even enjoy this one”, Venables said after Clemson’s College Football Playoff semifinal victory over Oklahoma. “I think this year we wanted to sort of take the game”.
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“He’s a great quarterback, he’s a great leader, and he can make things happen when we need them”, receiver ArDarius Stewart said.
“We can be the best team ever”, Boulware shouted. How he fares could determine whether or not Watson is able to make plays in the passing game against the Crimson Tide. That quickly gave way, however, to an onslaught in which the Buckeyes amassed 537 yards in their 42-35 comeback triumph.
Quarterback Connor Cook, a top National Football League prospect, completed just 19 of 39 attempts for 210 yards with two interceptions.
Michigan State embraced its role as the underdog and came in expecting to slug it out with the Tide and its smothering defense and hammering Heisman victor.
“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you command the attention of the world”, Swinney said.
By the time Coker and Ridley hit on another pretty 50-yarder late in the third quarter, a flawless touchdown pass that made the score 31-0, well, that wasn’t even necessary.
It still wasn’t as impressive as what Alabama did in a 38-0 win over Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. When Saban got the Michigan State job, he hired Dantonio away from Kansas. A former five-star prospect from California, Mixon rushed for 753 yards and seven touchdowns, while also catching 28 passes for 356 yards and four more scores. That breaks Alabama’s freshman record of 1,000 set by Amari Cooper in 2012.
Henry capped his month on college football’s awards circuit with 20 carries for 75 yards and his 24th and 25th rushing touchdowns of the season, a new school record. McCaffrey became the first player in Rose Bowl history to compile at least 100 yards rushing and receiving.
Ridley is Alabama’s go-to receiver, but he didn’t get his first start until the fifth game of the season against Georgia.
Beaten last January 1 when it first tried one of these newfangled national semifinals, the Crimson Tide’s reversal of fortune was thorough Thursday night at AT&T Stadium, because it did what it tends to do in this near-dynastic era under Coach Nick Saban. The first six plays of the game were run/pass options.
The team’s unofficial anthem is “We Too Deep”, which is not a cliché. “The whole time we were here, it was total focus on winning the game”.
He insisted after the game his shoulder was fine and he’s not planning any surgery, saying the injury was just a sprain. Clemson was a 37-17 victor over over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl earlier in the day.
The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas opened with Alabama as a touchdown favorite over Clemson.
Said cornerback Marlon Humphrey of his team, “We have good everything on this team”. “We’re not done yet”.
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As Michigan State slowed Henry down, Coker showed why his transfer to Alabama from Florida State two years ago was such a ballyhooed affair. The Clemson defense ranks 18th in the nation against the run but hasn’t faced a running back like Henry, and that comes with all due respect to Oklahoma’s Samaje Perine, who was banged up at the Orange Bowl. Ryan Anderson had four, including a sack and a tackle for loss, and Geno Matias-Smith and Reuben Foster were also in on four tackles each. Alabama has a plus-11 turnover margin in the 11 games since turning it over five times in a 43-37 loss to Ole Miss.
