Alabama rolled up 440 yards with Jake Coker throwing for 286 yards and two touchdowns, both to freshman Calvin Ridley, in the 38-0 shutout in the College Football Playoff semifinal in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Thursday.
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Alabama will play Clemson in the national championship game January 11 in Arizona. He has more wins, passing touchdowns and total offensive yards than anyone who has ever played for the Spartans.
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Swansea’s raids forward were rare, but they twice came close to a second equaliser in injury time. Rooney’s afternoon up to that point had been full of industry but short on inspiration.
As has been the case in other games, Coker benefitted from a Michigan State defense that loaded up to stop Henry. When that happens, you get behind the chains, you’re forced to throw. For the remainder of the half, Oklahoma collected five more plays of 15 or more yards including a 42 yard pass caught by Dede Westbrook taking the Sooners into the red zone.
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Michigan State embraced its role as the underdog and came in expecting to slug it out with the Tide and its smothering defense and hammering Heisman victor. “So to be able to play in all the games we’ve been able to play in, you just got to look at the bright side and all the positives”.
In Alabama’s last three games, Obasohan finished with 12 points once and failed to score double-digit points twice after he started the season scoring 17 or more points in five of his first eight games. Alabama beat Michigan State 38-0 later Thursday in the Cotton Bowl.
Heisman Trophy victor Derrick Henry didn’t touch the ball on Alabama’s opening possession.
Coker, like most Alabama quarterbacks in recent years, isn’t expected to carry the offense, but instead manage the game.
Clemson took the second-half kickoff and breezed down the field, covering 75 yards in 12 plays to reclaim the lead on Wayne Gallman’s 1-yard run, the first of his two TDs. The College Football Playoff gave fans two extremely dominant football performances by the Clemson Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide. But he wilted under the pressure of Alabama’s 11-deep defensive line Thursday night, getting sacked four times and finishing 19 of 39 for 210 yards with two interceptions in just his fifth career loss.
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The only previous time Saban faced Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio was in the Capital One Bowl at the end of the 2010 season. “Since 2010, we’re 51-0”, Swinney said he told his players after trailing Oklahoma at halftime.
Alabama forward Jimmie Taylor (10) shoots over Norfolk State forward Jordan Butler (45) during an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. “I was glad to see us come out and dominate”. He went down at the 1-yard line, and Henry punched it into the end zone for his 24th touchdown of the season, setting an SEC record and giving Alabama a 7-0 lead with 5:36 to go in the first half.
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They talked about how some players were too concerned about where they would be drafted or partying on Bourbon Street last season. Apparently, game officials didn’t have much faith that the Spartans were going to turn things around.
