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Crimson Tide Rolls Over Michigan State Spartans in Playoff Semifinal
The senior quarterback propelled Alabama into the national championship game with his performance against Michigan State in the College Football Playoff semifinal. No team has won more AP national championships than Alabama’s nine. There’s a reason why, leading up to the game, Venables said, “To say we’d be in the playoff, I’d have checked into an insane asylum“. He’s not going to say anything about it, but all of us, we know. I said we believe in the same things. “You’re four quarters away.’ My gosh, they’ve got to print a 15th ticket to see the Tigers now”.
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Oddsmakers quickly installed the Tide as the favorite by about a touchdown in the title game. At Ohio State, the Spartans upset the Buckeyes even though Cook didn’t play because of an injury. “So that made a difference in the game in his ability to operate”.
And to encourage them to win just one more. Those dreams turned into nightmares, and many wondered if the program could recover from the 70-33 beating administered by the Mountaineers that night.
That was also a pivotal year for the Tigers. Clemson made Oklahoma’s offense one-dimensional, completely shutting down Samaje Perine, Joe Mixon and the Sooner running game. He has gained 100-plus rushing yards in four of the last five games, with 145 against Oklahoma. Clemson defeated Oklahoma 37-17.
The Jan. 11 title game in Glendale, Arizona, matches a high-scoring Clemson offense led by quarterback Deshaun Watson against Nick Saban’s latest dominating defense at Alabama, which limited the Spartans to 239 yards.
Iowa avoided a shutout on Marshall Koehn’s 39-yard field goal in the third quarter, prompting huge cheers and a confetti shower from the Hawkeyes’ band. The big tailback was just a role player against a Spartans defense stacked to stop the run. After outrushing Oklahoma 312 yards to 67, it’s pretty clear that’s no longer an issue. But look back to last season. The return for a score was the fourth for Jones this season, breaking the school mark of three shared by David Palmer (1991) and Javier Arenas (2008).
“You could just tell”, Guillermo said.
This season, he seems to have gotten his troops to rally after a loss to Ole Miss, and they are playing with great energy on both sides of the ball.
Coker improved during the season, and he has one more shot to take the Tide to the top. We went to our bus and some of the [Oklahoma] players were coming over and pounding the windows, taking off their shirts and trying to start something.
McCaffrey then took a return through the heart of Iowa’s coverage unit, juking Iowa linebacker Josey Jewell on the way to his first TD on a punt return this season. “Had a great season, we’ll dwell on that”.
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After Dabo Swinney called for his punter to throw a pass to a defensive tackle in the biggest game of his coaching career, the Tigers became believers. “No one’s ever done it. So we would be the best ever”. They won with the better defense. (OK, I might be insane, but not in this case.) As alternately goofy and disastrous as Kiffin has been as a head coach, he has been a very good offensive coordinator in Tuscaloosa and done wonders developing two quarterbacks of obviously limited talent – Blake Sims last year and Jake Coker this year.