On New Years Eve the Clemson Tigers will take on the Oklahoma Sooners in the Orange Bowl.
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No. 16 Louisville comes up short to No. 12 Kentucky, 75-73
And some of the credit for the boost in three-point shooting goes to Kentucky natives Dominique Hawkins and Derek Willis . Saturday’s intrastate showdown was a thriller, as No. 16 Louisville hung tough with an uber-talented Wildcats squad.
They arrived on time at 1 p.m. After lunch and a team meeting, they practiced for the first time in Miami at Barry University. Oklahoma has more weapons on that side of the ball than teams like SC and North Carolina, Clemson’s last two opponents.
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The former Miami Central High standout, whose final regular-season game in high school was a win at Sun Life Stadium, said he received 120 text messages immediately after Oklahoma’s bowl announcement “from people I never even heard of, from friends I didn’t even know I had”, looking for tickets.
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Alabama coach Nick Saban, who compiled a record of 34-24-1 in five seasons as coach at Michigan State (1995-99), brought Spartans’ coach Mark Dantonio to campus for the first time to serve as MSU’s defensive backs coach in 1995. The expectations have changed to the point where top high school recruits like Watson-he was rated as the country’s No. 1 dual-threat quarterback in 2014-plan on spending just three years in college, the minimum allowed by the NFL. The disheartened Sooners had four losses going into the Russell Athletic Bowl, where they got thoroughly destroyed by Clemson last December. What coach Kirk Ferentz has done with this Iowa team is impressive.
“I could certainly handle that”, he said. When you look at the Oklahoma defense, it seems like they’re a good unit, until you dig deeper.
There’s not a lot separating these two teams and that’s why the point spread is where it’s at, but I think Mayfield leads Oklahoma to the decisive score in the closing moments of the Orange Bowl to survive and advance to play the victor of the Cotton Bowl between Michigan State and Alabama. I don’t see them pulling away in this situation. “I feel like I’m unsafe either way”.
That wasn’t the Oklahoma defense the program had come to expect under Bob Stoops. “The guys took hold of that and were all in about it. Accountability was a big thing for everybody, and we just went in that direction and it’s been good for us ever since”. Oklahoma is +10 in turnover margin this season.
Even before the broken arm, he had suffered a cracked rib against Ole Miss, had a sprained ankle, a concussion after the LSU game and a bruised quad this season without missing any other games.
This team is incredibly motivated to get us back to being a championship-caliber team. None, save for Clemson are as balanced as the Sooners, yet most of the hype leading up to the CFP has gone to them.
The Noles were favored by 12.5 points because they had a bevy of National Football League talent and Heisman Trophy victor Chris Weinke at quarterback, who edged out OU quarterback Josh Heupel for the honor. It marked the Spartans’ debut in the Cotton Bowl and coach Mark Dantonio hopes to tap into some positive memories in this year’s return to Arlington.
Although the contest was not a playoff game, Michigan State defeated Baylor 42-41 in last year’s Cotton Bowl. Dantonio said: “We were there past year and had just a tremendous experience”.
Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who was recently selected as the next head football coach at Georgia, will handle both jobs during the Crimson Tide’s playoff run. To me they have a real good complete team. He is following in the footsteps of Tom Herman, who helped Ohio State win a national championship while calling plays for the Buckeyes’ offense after being announced as the new coach at Houston. Go ahead and throw a challenge at us. If Michigan State can’t get to Bama quarterback Jake Coker, it’ll be a long night for the Spartans. In my opinion, the team that gets to 31 probably wins the game.
“We wish we didn’t have the breakdowns and played better”, linebacker Ben Boulware said. “Not to say anything about Deshaun that he’s a bad athlete, but Trevone’s a different animal”. Swinney called it one of the teams best practices of the season, adding, Everybody was there early, dialed in and ready to work..
“I think at the National Football League level you can do both”, Watson said, pointing to MVP candidate Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers as proof.
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The defensive coordinator said, Its been fun watching those guys battle and go week in and week out against each other and have the kind of success that theyve had on game day..
