That quickly gave way, however, to an onslaught in which the Buckeyes amassed 537 yards in their 42-35 comeback triumph.
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But Swinney’s aggressive message should encourage his players to seize the moment for a school that won its only previous national championship in 1981. “(But) when you are a defensive team, and can run the ball, it allows your skill guys and your quarterback to develop as the season progresses”. “Hopefully that can increase as we get into conference play but he’s got to get back to practice and work himself back to being the guy I remember”. “You’ve got to pick up the pieces”. The point is this: Nobody has mastered stern and disciplinary football on the college level like Saban, and no one ever will. Which is why the only way to beat Alabama is to somehow screw with Saban’s domineering sense of order.
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The only drawback is that the title will be decided in the desert, 1,981 (ironic, huh?) miles from Clemson and 1,661 miles from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Coker threw a ideal deep ball to Ridley for 50 yards to the 1.
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Wide receiver Calvin Ridley caught eight balls for 138 yards and two scores, both coming during a third-quarter barrage. Scoring grabs of 50 and 6 yards by Ridley were sandwiched around cornerback Cyrus Jones’ 57-yard punt-return touchdown.
“I think the players learned a lot from what happened in the game a year ago”, Saban said after Thursday’s convincing win over the outmatched Spartans. Smart: “That makes things easier to coach”.
Watson has completed 68.2 percent of his passes this year with 31 passing scores and another 1,032 yards and 12 touchdowns on the ground, matching the 12 from lead back Wayne Gallman, who tallied 1,482 yards of his own. That breaks Alabama’s freshman record of 1,000 set by Amari Cooper in 2012. He finished with 75 yards but did score two touchdowns. McCaffrey became the first player in Rose Bowl history to compile at least 100 yards rushing and receiving.
Alabama led 17-0 and was in firm control late in the third quarter when senior cornerback Cyrus Jones, who had an interception late in the first half, returned a punt 57 yards for a touchdown. The Swinney plan has been a good one and he’ll obviously adhere to that successful formula as they get ready for the formidable Crimson Tide.
Said cornerback Marlon Humphrey of his team, “We have good everything on this team”. We’ll have three or four possessions when I don’t know who we are out there on the floor. They were totally focused to win this game.
Top-ranked Clemson (14-0) also was impressive, beating No. 4 Oklahoma 37-17 in the first semifinal Thursday in the Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium. If his Crimson Tide defeat Clemson in the national championship game with the same kind of overbearing defensive performance, Saban will have claimed his fifth national championship as a head coach (one at LSU, and four with Alabama). The Gamecocks scored the first two points in overtime but the Crimson Tide scored the next 10 to stay ideal at home this season (4-0).
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“This is no surprise”, Allen said. “We’re not done yet”. The Tide lost in last year’s College Football Playoff to Ohio State, in large part because Buckeyes quarterback Cardale Jones and coach Urban Meyer managed to keep the Alabama defense perpetually off-balance. Under Saban, the Crimson Tide are 21-7 against teams ranked in the top 10 by The Associated Press.
