But the loss still stings.
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Mufti is still critical but stable
He said a team of senior faculty of AIIMS is monitoring the treatment of CM. “He is conscious, alert, and is taking food orally”. “Sayeed is sick and requires Oxygen therapy but is hemodynamically stable”, an official spokesperson at AIIMS said.
Alabama rolled into the Cotton Bowl determined to wipe away the memories of last season’s College Football Playoff flop and it was no contest. A few drives of 22 plays, as they produced to close out the Big Ten Championship Game against Iowa, would really help.
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At Cotton Bowl Media Day on Tuesday, Cook raved about Michigan State quarterbacks coach Brad Salem and his preparation for the next step. That style has led to a renaissance for Stanford, which beat Wisconsin in the 2013 Rose Bowl and lost to Michigan State two years ago in the 100th edition.
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“The focus we had for this game is completely different from what they had before, and it paid off for them”, Saban said. Here are five takes from the Tide’s semifinal victory.
Alabama would get no arguments from Michigan State’s secondary, as safety Demetrious Cox and Hicks agreed Ridley was the best receiver they’d faced.
(AP Photo/LM Otero). Alabama quarterback Jake Coker (14) smiles after the Cotton Bowl NCAA college football semifinal playoff game against Michigan State, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. Alabama, on the other hand, has one loss on the season to Ole Miss, but are comfortable on the national stage, having won 3 championships since 2009. Halfway through the second quarter, a 50-yard toss to freshman receiver Calvin Ridley set up a one-yard touchdown run from Heisman victor Derrick Henry. He ran for 75 yards and scored two touchdowns.
Cook just didn’t play well against Alabama, and there’s one former Michigan State quarterback that can relate.
The Tide is the only team to be playing in the College Football Playoff each of its first two seasons.
After losing to Ohio State in a CFP semifinal last season, the Crimson Tide were all business in their second trip this season to AT&T Stadium.
But some of this year’s success has to do with sheer talent – and team attitude, said Joey Singleton, a Gainesville, Georgia resident who watched Tigers quarterback Deshaun Watson as a high school player there.
“What is so good about Dabo is we know he’s very genuine in his love for Clemson even though he graduated from Alabama”, said Thompson, who worked on the security detail for coaches from Danny Ford to Swinney. “It was just a matter of when”.
The turning point of the game came at the end of the second half, after Alabama made a field goal to put the Tide up 10.
Alabama coach Avery Johnson said he wanted to see how his team began the second half. “I was glad to see us come out and dominate”.
Now, the Tide will try to prevent Clemson from becoming the first team in FBS history to finish 15-0. Watson, who was named the game’s offensive MVP, passed for one touchdown and ran for another. Clemson’s defense took the Sooners’ jabs, but it was that same group that delivered the knockout punch on Baker Mayfield and the Sooners. Running behind defensive linemen A’Shawn Robinson and Jarran Reed, Henry punched it in for his SEC-record breaking 24th touchdown, and with 5:36 left in the first half it was 7-0 Tide.
“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you command the attention of the world”, Swinney said. “People can have their own opinions or whatever, but there ain’t a better one than No. 4”.
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If anything, it looked like rushing his throws was much more the issue, and it’s hard to blame him for the happy feet, as he was hit hard and often by some Alabama bruisers, especially in the first half. Oklahoma went to the locker room with a 17-16 lead after Mark Andrews hauled in an 11-yard touchdown pass from Mayfield with 1:34 remaining, and the Sooners defence came up with a pick in the end zone on an ill-advised throw by Watson into triple-coverage.
