The Mountaineers – wrongly – tried to remind everybody that the last time Clemson was in the Orange Bowl it didn’t work out.
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In a college football top tier comprising 128 teams and about 1,280 flaws, Clemson (14-0) and Alabama (13-1) have spent at least the last two months seeming the least flawed, week by week, until they wound up pretty compellingly close to flawless. Quarterback Jake Coker found Calvin Ridley for two TDs as Alabama broke the shackles in the 2nd quarter and won in a canter.
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The NC State defense is giving up 23.8 points per game with 188.5 passing yards per game and 144 rushing yards per game. Assuming Memphis’ quarterback declares for the NFL Draft, his final game will go down as one of his worst.
Alabama beat Michigan State 38-0 Thursday to earn the spot in the title game. Alabama is a team that depends on a fearsome defense that has allowed the fewest points in the country following its masterpiece against Michigan State.
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“This championship drive, talent doesn’t win the game”, defensive end Eric Striker said.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are seven-point favorites over the Clemson Tigers in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on January 11 in Glendale, Ariz.
“That false story before the game, said I got on their bus, that ain’t true”, Lawson said.
Clemson will take on Alabama in that game and the storylines will abound – Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney is an Alabama grad and coaches on both teams have worked at both programs.
Saban will be bidding for his fifth national title, which would put him on a pedestal with the legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant.
“He was just telling us, when we go back to school tomorrow, just get treatment, get some film study started, just already start working on Clemson”, outside linebacker Tim Williams said.
That was also a pivotal year for the Tigers. Swinney, who happens to be an Alabama alumnus, was hired as Clemson’s interim coach in 2008 and was impressive enough that he was handed the job on a full-time basis.
Clemson took the lead with Gallman’s 1-yard run with 10:51 left in the third quarter.
Now, he’s got the Tigers within one win of their first national title since 1981.
“I know people were probably thinking, oh, no, no, he’s not doing it again”, Wilkins said. Where Mike Williams gets hurt in September and Lakip gets suspended in July and Lakip and Cain each get suspended Tuesday and it just doesn’t matter because walk-ons like Renfrow and Huegel come out of the woodwork to make an impact.
The Tide is the only team to be playing in the College Football Playoff each of its first two seasons.
Nick Saban said he saw something in his team coming into the Cotton Bowl that he had never seen before.
“Last year we sort of just participated in the game”, he said. “If he can make a good throw on the run, hats off to him, but we didn’t want him sitting in the pocket delivering throws”.
The only defense that Clemson has faced with anywhere near Alabama’s ability against the run was Boston College, though, and the Tigers managed just 112 yards on the ground in that contest.
Deshaun Watson’s final pass of the Orange Bowl was a punctuation mark.
A team once known for such inexplicable stumbles that a derisive term was coined for it – Clemsoning – blew out the No. 4 Sooners over the final two quarters after trailing 17-16 at halftime.
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Players are aware, though, of the year star sophomore quarterback Deshaun Watson and the Tigers have had.
