OU still unable to solve Clemson riddle as Tigers roll in second half to 37-17 win and end Sooners season.
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After the play, the referee picked up the flag and said there was no roughing the passer since McDowell hit Coker in the chest. Bring your own guts isn’t just a catchphrase for Dabo Swinney. “So you’ve got to pick up the pieces and move forward”.
Sometimes it’s hard to get back up after getting popped right in the mouth, and that’s exactly what Oklahoma experienced on New Year’s Eve as they were beat 37-17 by Clemson in the Orange Bowl. The Tigers are now 14-0.
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Watson had at least one passing touchdown and one rushing touchdown in the same game for the ninth time this season, a Clemson record. Watson threw for 187 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for 145 yards and another score.
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University of Oklahoma football fans stand with Clemson fans Thursday during the fourth quarter of the College Football Playoff Semifinal game at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Soon after the Dolphins play host to the Patriots on Sunday to end their 2015 season, work will begin on roofing, which is the second phase in the stadium’s $400 million renovation. And they were pitted in a semifinal against Oklahoma-an opponent they had pummeled 40-6 in a bowl game just 12 months ago.
Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield completed 26 of 41 passes for 311 yards and a touchdown, but was intercepted twice.
The second interception ended his season as he took a knee to the head in trying to make the tackle and was understandably not available to the media for interviews following the game. Both Perine and redshirt freshman Joe Mixon didn’t finish the game, banged up with separate injuries. Oklahoma converted on third-and-7 and third-and-3 plays. He finished with 75 yards but did score two touchdowns. “No one seems to pay attention to lil’ ole Clemson”, said defensive tackle D.J.
Swinney said he called for the trick play because he thought his team was tight at the time. “We knew it was going to be challenging”. Oklahoma was shut out in the second half.
Any time Clemson lost a big game in recent years, it was supposedly referred to as “Clemonsing”.
You can’t take away from being up at the half, especially after what we all thought was a momentum seizing INT to boot, but in hindsight it kind of feels a little bit like fool’s gold.
“We practice physical”, Caldwell said. The Tigers needed nine plays to drive just 19 yards, but they were already in field-goal position when they got the ball, thanks to a short punt – 24 yards – by Austin Seibert. “Penalties hurt us all over the field…Way too many and a lot of them critical ones”. The play resulted in a three-yard loss, but it essentially marked the beginning of the end for the Sooners.
The Sooners came up two wins short in a bid for their eighth Associated Press national championship, and first since 2000.
The Tigers (14-0) advance to the championship game January 11, when they’ll face the victor of the Cotton Bowl semifinal between Alabama and Michigan State. “I tell them all the time, when you do the common things in an uncommon way, you command the attention of the world, and this team is uncommon in everything they do”. “We lean on those guys pretty good”.
Clemson has won its last two bowl games by 54 combined points, and according to ESPN Stats & Info, this is the largest margin in consecutive bowl games in program history. “It makes it challenging when you don’t have that part of the game that’s threatening”.
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Huegel then hit a 43-yarder to give Clemson a 16-10 lead, but Oklahoma closed the first-half scoring on Mayfield’s 11-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mark Andrews. Saban has won three national titles in the last six years at Alabama, to go along with a BCS title at LSU.
