The 2 annual College Football Playoff kicks off at 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, when the Oklahoma Sooners face the Clemson Tigers in the Capital One Orange Bowl.
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I asked the former All-American quarterback about this year’s Orange Bowl and about what he sees from both teams – and in particular, these two quarterbacks – coming into this crucial game.
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The Sooners came up two wins short in a bid for their eighth Associated Press national championship, and first since 2000. Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield completed 26 of 41 passes for 311 yards and a touchdown, but was intercepted twice.
That will leave a sensational matchup between Oklahoma and Michigan State in the championship game, giving college football a fitting climax to what has been a memorable season. Alabama and Michigan Stat…
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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”.
A moment, please, before we delve into the future, to let us recognize the dear-departed Bluebonnet Bowl, a middling and largely meaningless contest played in Houston, Texas, during the New Year’s Eves of my childhood.
No sport embodies chaos theory quite like college football.
“So I guess the question is: ‘Which shows are appealing to which audiences? First, anyway”, Dantonio said Wednesday.
Now we get this same effect almost every Saturday, with games on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and Fox.
The Michigan State coach didn’t mind deferring to his counterpart from Alabama. Even when the Spartans are prepared for pass plays, they have at least seven guys in the box and the safeties aren’t far off, ready to help in run support. But those games were on New Year’s Day, and what do Americans do on New Year’s Day? “I don’t think there’s anything he can’t handle, so I just lean towards him”.
“It’s always neat when you come to the Orange Bowl because you don’t usually have a welcome like this”, Swinney said.
That should be enough to get Michigan State a tight win. Saban tried the National Football League for a couple of seasons with the Miami Dolphins before returning to college in 2007. The major advantage here may be for the Crimson Tide.
“He’s, obviously, blossomed into (doing) a fantastic job in terms of what he’s done at Michigan State right now”, Saban said.
“It’s great to have the ACC champion feed into this given our relationship with them throughout the BCS and now the College Football Playoff era”, Poms said.
It would be hard not to at this point. The Spartans have won two of the last three Big Ten Championships, and have posted 11 or more wins in five of the last six seasons.
The traditional Rose Bowl timeslot in late afternoon is sacrosanct to the folks in Pasadena, Ann Arbor and Columbus, so it can’t be moved.
ATLANTA – Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher tried to spin his team’s performance in the Peach Bowl as a strong effort with the wrong result.
The only thing missing is a national championship.
The playoff football game might be over by 11:30 p.m. Thursday, but it might not be since big games like this one usually run more than three hours.
The Sooners have several key playmakers on offense, beginning with quarterback Baker Mayfield. A Boston restaurant magnate says that the games are “not a factor” in her restaurant’s New Year’s plans.
The difference between New Year’s Eve and, say, Thanksgiving and Christmas, is that those holidays are official federal holidays, and they often involve people staying home with family and friends rather than going out into the night for assorted revelry.
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Magnus also expects a record night for digital usage. “There’s nothing too insane about it”, Michigan State linebacker Riley Bullough said. The only games that matter now are the two semifinals and the national championship game. When the playoff was under discussion, Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor Harvey Perlman would talk about “taking back New Year’s Day” and threatened to go back to the old format for bowl games.
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“Obviously, any opportunity to host a game of this level … to have the key stakeholders who are involved in this system here in South Florida for that duration of time and then they see all that South Florida has to offer, you know, from the weather, from the amenities that the destination offers and the activities, the hotel infrastructure and, probably, the most pressing change and important change would be the stadium modernization, I think they’re going to be, you know, very pleased and very excited about what Sun Life Stadium has to offer”, Poms said.
