Wayne Gallman carried the ball 28 times for 187 yards and one touchdown on the night.
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Watson completed 26 of 42 pass attempts and threw three touchdown strikes, rushed 24 times for 131 net yards, and ran for two touchdowns.
“I didn’t know if it was reviewable or not, I asked and he said it was”, Cunningham said. “We do some of the most bonehead things, but that’s a reflection of coaching, and we’ve got to do a better job”.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Deshaun Watson did everything in his power to ensure Clemson’s ideal season continued. This did not escape coach Dabo Swinney before the ACC championship game, when he ended his comments about playing 10 straight with, “Appreciate that there, commissioner!”
Coincidentally enough, the loss for the Tar Heels (11-2, 8-0) was the second in as many played at the facility in the Queen City this season, having lost to SC in their first game of the year there.
“I had a chance to look at it, and they missed it”, Heels coach Larry Fedora said.
And some of those messages contained pictures that those players might never forget – ones that suggested that the Tar Heels should have had possession of the ball, and hope, after recovering an onside kick with a little more than one minute remaining. But, nothing is restricting this official’s vision of the play, and one can clearly tell even from up high were the cameras were stationed that No. 30 o f North Carolina Hunter Crafford (the player who recovered the ball and was ruled offsides) is behind the 35-yard line.
North Carolina’s Ryan Switzer hauled in his second TD catch of the game with 1:13 left to cut Clemson’s lead to eight and give the Tigers a scare. The mark of 990 total yards is another ACC Championship Game record.
“We did everything we were supposed to do on that play”, Switzer, the junior receiver, said later. On Saturday night, we saw how much damage bad calls can do in college football as well.
Player of the Year, led the top-ranked Clemson Tigers to a 45-37 league championship win over the 10th-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday. In a statement, the ACC said that the play could not be reviewed. Clemson scored on their next drive off a 35-yard touchdown pass to Artavis Scott from Deshaun Watson.
North Carolina opened the scoring with a field goal and grabbed a 9-7 first quarter lead on a 40-yard catch-and-run score from Williams to T.J.
“Whether it is a sixth-grader under center or a Heisman trophy candidate, you just want to beat him”, Rashad said.
Clemson has won 55 games in the last five seasons and still has one or two more to play this season.
However, Watson put the Tigers back in front with two seconds left in the first half on a 1-yard jump pass to tight end Jordan Leggett for a 21-16 halftime lead.
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“The biggest thing was to watch them play and knew we needed to come ready to play”, Venables said of the Tar Heels “For a good part of (Saturday), we really were”. “This guy beats you not just with his legs, he beats you with his arm, his mind, his heart, his guts, his toughness”. I remind myself to enjoy it. It was a tremendous accomplishment – ACC champions and beating a great North Carolina team.
