The loss still stung. After being humbled by Urban Meyer’s Buckeyes last season, the coach of the Crimson Tide took some heat in the offseason by talking about possible distractions his team faced leading up to the loss to Ohio State.
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It was a badly needed three points for United manager van Gaal , who had been forced to deny he was considering quitting over Christmas.
Smart was thrilled with the weeklong focus and effort of the players, saying, “They practiced to the tune of a shutout”.
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Saban said his team came into this playoff with a different attitude.
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Coker responded to Michigan State’s dare by combining with the suffocating Bama defense to crush the Spartans 38-0.
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.
“Just got to keep the focus we had in preparation for this game”, Coker said. “But, we knew at some time that we would need these guys like they did today and in the Florida game” for the SEC championship on December 5. Down the stretch this season, the Tide leaned so heavily on Henry. At least with Alabama, you could spend a lot of the season wondering about a questionable passing game that made Heisman Trophy victor Derrick Henry’s 90 carries in the closing two pre-bowl games, and his 1,986 rushing yards for the season entering Thursday, all the more manly.
CLEMSON will meet Alabama in U.S. college football’s championship game after both recorded convincing victories in Thursday’s decisive bowl games.
Clemson might have to come up with a new plan.
Michigan State lost 38-0 and simply looked like they don’t belong on the same football field. One was a six-yard reception on a fade from Coker were Ridley had enough awareness to get his foot down in the end zone and the other was a 50-yard deep ball.
The freshman wideout had eight receptions for 138 yards on the game. No FBS team has ever finished 15-0, and being the first to get there has been a goal for Clemson from the moment that the team convened for training camp last summer.
With one College Football Playoff opponent defeated, Alabama will turn to top-ranked Clemson, whose spread offense should test a defense unfazed by Michigan State’s meat-and-potatoes philosophy.
Clemson pulled away from Oklahoma in the second half of the Orange Bowl and displayed a dynamic offensive attack.
That threat, Saban said, “tells me they’ve got a really good team and a really good program”. “If you have that many players who play, it really doesn’t matter who calls the defense, to be honest”.
“Any time you have a team from your league in the national championship game, it’s a great thing”, ACC Commissioner John Swofford said.
“I view myself as a leader already, (and) that will progress in the winter and the spring and summer and into next year, and we’ll be ready to go”. The Sooners (11-2) matched their lowest-scoring game of the season as Baker Mayfield was sacked five times and intercepted twice, finally getting knocked out of the game when he took a blow to the head trying to make a tackle after his second pick. If the Spartan defence can’t limit Henry’s effectiveness – a tall order – then MSU are going to find themselves in a world of trouble.
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Watson certainly lived up to the hype of being a Heisman finalist, accounting for 332 yards and earning the offensive MVP award. Henry did score twice. When Alabama’s defense has struggled in recent seasons, it has been against mobile quarterbacks who can make plays with their legs – like DeShaun Watson.
