He has the better team, and he has more talent on his side, so if Clemson wins and Dabo Swinney pulls it off, then it becomes more about the young Tiger head man. He wouldn’t just be a national title-winning coach; he’d be the guy who beat Nick Saban in a national championship.
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Until this season, the Tigers were known for such inexplicable disappointments that a term was coined for it – Clemsoning. Next season, they’ll be equipped to take the final one.
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As Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said after reaching the title game: “Our team has shown heart, had guts all year long”. Watson will have to play a near-perfect game against a defense that just humiliated Connor Cook and the Spartan offense.
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Since 2005, only two teams from north of the Mason-Dixon Line, or west of the Mississippi River, have won national titles: Ohio State past year, and Texas in 2005.
Watson certainly lived up to the hype of being a Heisman finalist. Watson accounted for 332 total yards, passing for 187 and rushing for 145. He was named the offensive MVP. The Spartans didn’t get a single first down in the entire game. Oklahoma went to the locker room with a 17-16 lead after Mark Andrews hauled in an 11-yard touchdown pass from Baker Mayfield with 1:34 remaining, and the Sooners defense came up with a pick in the end zone on an ill-advised throw by Watson into triple-coverage.
If Watson was flustered by that interception, he sure didn’t show it after the break. The Heisman Trophy victor had 75 yards on 20 carries for a 3.75-yard average (the second time all season he has averaged fewer than 4.0 yards).
Alabama, moments after its 38-0 victory tonight against Michigan State in the national college football semifinals, opened as a minus-7 point betting favorite by MGM Resorts International for the January 11 national championship game against Clemson.
Maintaining that belief will be a challenge after the Tigers watch video of Alabama’s Cotton Bowl win. Oklahoma’s first possession was the exact opposite: three straight yards-losing plays forced the Sooners to punt, setting the tone for the struggles they would face the rest of the game. Here is a look at the opening odds for this game.
His defensive mates did just fine without him. If there were any last stragglers still doubting Clemson and waiting for the team to fall apart like it would in the past, the Orange Bowl should have answered any and all questions: A sturdy foundation has been built, and Clemson finishes the 2015 calendar year as the most complete team in college football, thanks in part to the rapid growth of the offensive line in front of the rapidly maturing Watson and Gallman.
Clemson ran for over 300 yards, with Wayne Gallman carrying 26 times for 150 yards and two scores.
The Tigers played loose throughout, even pulling off some special teams trickery to set up their first TD.
Perine, meanwhile, proved his true freshman season was no fluke and that he could pile up rushing yards out of virtually any offense.
For Oklahoma (11-2), the loss is a disappointing end to a resurgent season for the program. Embattled coach Tommy Bowden resigned after six games, and Swinney who was in charge of receivers took over as the head coach.
This season was a huge upgrade, but it ended with the same result: a dismal loss to Clemson at bowl time.
The FBS conference commissioners who put together the College Football Playoff in 2012 said they wanted to create a new tradition by playing the semifinals on New Year’s Eve twice every three years over the course of a 12-year contract with ESPN. He wobbled off the field after making a tackle following his second interception and spent the closing minutes on the sideline. “We missed plenty of tackles, trust me, but I do think when we had to the most, we played our best”.
The coach insisted that it wouldn’t be a distraction.
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There’s no Clemsoning with this bunch.
