“You can’t take away the Big 12 championship and the fact that this group of seniors has led us back to one game from being in the national championship”, Stoops said. It burned Alabama so badly to be beaten in the College Football Playoff semifinals a year ago that the Crimson Tide was determined to handle its business differently this time around. Alabama routed Michigan State 38-0 in a game that was pretty much over midway through the third quarter.
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No need to worry about Alabama shrinking under the bright lights of the national title game. OU fullback Dimitri Flowers was called for unsportsmanlike conduct while taunting a Clemson player after the Sooners penetrated the Tiger 30-yard line.
The Seminoles (10-3), who trailed 21-3 at halftime, tried to rally with two fourth-quarter touchdown passes by Sean Maguire. Serving at first on an interim basis, he got the job permanently after leading Clemson to bowl eligibility. Heisman Trophy winning running back Derrick Henry rushed for 75 yards and 2 touchdowns on 20 carries, becoming only the 25th running back in NCAA history (encompassing all divisions) to rush for 2,000 yards in a season.
Where it sprang leaks for the Buckeyes’ 537 total yards and 281 on the ground, it used its enviable and populous defensive front to make Michigan State look helpless. Ridley would amass eight receptions for 138 yards, and Coker would say, “We’ve just got a lot of athletes on our side”.
“We go over all kinds of fake punts every week”, Stoops said. Since then they had averaged 52 points a game.
Clemson goes for its second national championship ever and first since 1981, when an Alabamian named Danny Ford led the Tigers to the mountaintop. And that was with ACC Defensive Player of the Year Shaq Lawson on the sideline for nearly the entire game. They really are an excellent football team. “We won 17 in a row, but we’re still the underdog”. Just ask North Carolina, who allowed Gallman to rush for 187 yards and Watson to erupt for 137 in the ACC title game.
Mayfield, who threw for 311 yards but was picked off twice, wobbled off the field in the closing minutes after taking a shot to the head. They’ve outgained opponents by 2,946 yards – roughly 1.7 miles – this season.
Watson has topped the 100-yard rushing mark five times in the past six games. 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. One more win would move Swinney, a Birmingham native, into an elite group of coaches and he would deny another title for Alabama – a school he has said he “probably never would have left if they hadn’t kicked me out”. “I’m sure our guys will be motivated, trying to do the best they can to play the best they can in the game”.
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But Coker began lighting up the Michigan State secondary in the second quarter. It was the highlight, but the real story was the unflappable foundation that Swinney and his staff have built over the last seven years, filling in the gaps around the talented skill position players to build something sustainable.
