The top-ranked Clemson Tigers and second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide have earned the trip to Glendale, Arizona, by both dominating the second half of their respective semifinal bowl games. And even with what the Seminoles and Tigers have done in recent years, the ACC still believes it doesn’t get the level of respect that’s afforded to some of the other leagues namely the Southeastern Conference, which just happens to be providing Clemson’s final obstacle this season in Alabama.
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Its impact: Clemson stopped any momentum Oklahoma had cold, and scored just a few plays later on the ensuing drive to take a commanding lead. Sixteen of them are for loss and five of those were sacks. He wobbled off the field after making a tackle following his second interception and spent the closing minutes on the sideline. It’s a seven-point underdog despite having a 14-0 record.
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Quarterback and Heisman finalist Deshaun Watson sparked the Tigers offense with a total of 332 yards and two touchdowns.
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In the third quarter, the Tigers really began to enforce their will. Zac Brooks had Tigers fans roaring when he ran over Sooners safety Ahmad Thomas on a sweep. Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon both went down with injuries in this game.
Swinney didn’t say what the players did wrong. The second game was worse: 5.8 million people saw one or more of 464,000 tweets.
The defeat was the Sooners’ first since they were beaten by rival Texas in October.
How did the season of Michigan State-Michigan, Georgia Tech-Florida State, Miami-Duke and Arkansas-Ole Miss wind up with something this sensible? “But we weren’t tonight”.
“We had too many stupid penalties, myself included”, Flowers said after the game. McCullough played sparingly and had yet to make a catch. “That’s what hurt the most”.
Clemson won the Orange Bowl to advance to the National Championship against Alabama, which means it’s time for head coach Dabo Swinney to be spotted dancing with his players again.
It still wasn’t as impressive as what Alabama did in a 38-0 win over Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. The story of the game can be summed up in two words, though: Deshaun Watson.
He left without talking to reporters.
“How are you going to get on another bus when you got secret service following you everywhere here?” “At times he was scrambling around and waiting for something to come open”.
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Clemson, meanwhile, put an end to the reign of the No. 4 seeds in the College Football Playoff.
“We go over all kinds of fake punts every week”, Stoops said. We were still in a quarterback situation, rotating guys and figuring that out. When OU finally did get another drive going, Mayfield threw another interception with 7:23 to go that essentially sealed the Clemson victory.
Still, Oklahoma had its opportunities and actually led 17-16 at halftime.
However, first the Tigers are going to enjoy this win and take some time off. It’s up to the coaches to get back Monday and start planning for what the team will face, but for now everyone will need to take a break and recover.
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“Most everybody on the team is coming back, so this is the beginning of next year”, senior linebacker Frank Shannon said.
