At the same time, I think it’s my responsibility to teach these guys the preparation that needs to happen to be successful in these bowl games.
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It’s not just pace of the game or dictating tempo, it’s the ability of the dual-threat quarterback force Alabama to cover in space and account for the quarterback run.
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Clemson (14-0) dominated the second half and shut down Oklahoma’s high-scoring offence that had averaged 52 points over its last seven contests.
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Derrick Henry rushes for 75 yards and two touchdowns as Alabama bowls over Michigan State and into the national title game January 11.
That doesn’t mean the Spartans suddenly have caught the Crimson Tide.
Best team ever? Well, that would be debatable.
Freshman Calvin Ridley accounted for two 50-yard catches, representing 100 of Alabama’s 285 passing yards. He’s one heck of a player.
ArDarius Stewart makes a play. They put more speed rushers on the line and rotated 11 guys, and the result: 46 sacks, most in the country and most in the Saban era.
Alabama took complete command in the third quarter and put the game away. He ran it back 21.
Clemson co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott believes the Tigers will be up for the next challenge.
The Spartans’ offense finally came alive in the final seconds of the half, Cook completing 5-of-6 passes to move the ball to the Alabama 12. “I’ve been trying to say it forever”, Alabama senior center Ryan Kelly said.
Alabama, which has won 11 consecutive games since losing to MS, entered the semifinal ranked first nationally in rushing defense, second nationally in total defense and third in scoring defense. Unlike some of his teammates, Coker didn’t win his ring in 2012. He did a really good job coming along this year and you can see it the last half of this season. He picked up his master’s in December, and now he hopes to have two sets of rings and degrees.
Michigan State has never played the Tigers. But inside the Alabama locker room, confidence in Coker’s arm never wavered. He’ll be facing a Clemson defense that is very talented but prone to giving up big pass plays – something we’ve already seen Coker produce in the postseason. “There’s this Twitter account”, Kelly said. Kelly is correct. Here’s a sample …
Alabama was the better team, by far, on Thursday night.
Clemson sacked Baker Mayfield five times and held the Sooners to 121 yards over the final two quarters. He would have gotten the ball more, but when Coker counted nine men in the box on Alabama’s run-pass option plays, the quarterback’s mandate was to throw-usually a bubble screen.
How about the Spartans’ worst loss since the 2011 Capital One Bowl loss to Alabama?
“I’m really, really proud of our team”, Alabama coach Nick Saban said. The faithful had painfully little to cheer after Iowa fell behind in the opening seconds, putting a daylong damper on Kirk Ferentz’s first Rose Bowl after 17 years as a head coach. “We didn’t protect him that great”.
On the play Saban referenced, Ridley lined up on the right hash.
He had an assist from star freshman wide receiver Calvin Ridley. It’s how the Spartans, particularly quarterback Connor Cook, must have felt after Bama trucked them in the final three quarters. Clutch plays in the passing game keyed the drive that was highlighted by a 50-yard pass from Coker to Ridley that reached the MSU 1-yard line. Both teams had plenty of familiarity with AT&T Stadium. Once again, Coker threw a rope. Cook had a record of 34-4 in the last seasons with 70 touchdown passes and only 19 interceptions in 1,113 attempts, and he’s a projected first-round National Football League draft pick. There might not be many in this game, either.
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“They were talking all game and talking before the game in the media and stuff and we took it real personal to deny ’em what they thought they could do”, defensive lineman A’Shawn Robinson said. “But he went 25 for 30 or something like that”, Cox said. We’ve been in some big games and it’s just the next challenge. “How well he’s played is all a credit to him”.
