Can Clemson take out Alabama? Yes – if Tigers don’t go in ‘scared’

“I think Jalen was a little frustrated with the way he played in the last game”, Saban said.

College football can be an unpredictable game, but here’s one prediction on which I would bet all of your money: These teams will not combine to score 85 or more points when they match up again January 9 in Tampa, Fla. They’re not tricking people; they’re lining up and they take care of business. For Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, it is another opportunity to beat his beloved alma mater and snap a title drought for the Tigers that stretches back more than three decades.

What’s changed for these two teams since Round 1?

“We can’t go back in time and beat that team”, Johnson said. “They’re excited about their team and their performance”. “He’s not just a great player, but he makes everybody on the team want to play for him”. “We are hoping that the fans are just as intense and just as excited”.

Jake Coker emerged as the starting quarterback last season for Bama and led the Tide to a championship. “You can’t go based off previous year”. The senior kicker also handled five kickoffs for an average of 65 yards per kick with two touchbacks. The Tigers weren’t going to let Ohio State’s brand impact the game.

“Hopefully we’re going to do our job, first of all, and play the coverages and techniques that are called”. That’s it. I have high standards for me and my teammates, and this is where we wanted to be.

The 2016 College Football Playoff semifinals took place over the weekend on New Year’s Eve, and while they were quite underwhelming contests to watch for the most part, they did give us what could be remembered as a rematch for the ages. Between Watson’s throws and scrambling and the routes of slot WR Hunter Renfrow and TE Jordan Leggett, Alabama’s LBs had real difficulty navigating all of the threats.

Swinney didn’t see the onside kick as a back-breaker. Alabama’s only effective offense was handing the ball off to bruiser Bo Scarbrough and watching him rumble his way to an impressive 180 yards.

“Stunned? No. Pissed? Yes”, Swinney said of his reaction to the play.

“It’s huge, it’s unbelievable the traffic that comes in”, Pennell said. Sarkisian was sacked five games into the 2015 season after then-athletic director Pat Haden said Sark showed up in no condition to lead practice following a pep rally in which he appeared to be intoxicated while giving a speech. Two of Alabama’s top offensive weapons were drawing a lot of comparisons to other stars.

It’ll be Tigers-Tide, round two as Clemson and Alabama tangle in the College Football Championship for the second season in a row. “I say Clemson my 3 points”, he said. We’re aware of that.

Since that day, Clemson has become a household name winning two ACC titles while going 69-13 overall with program-defining wins over LSU, UGA, Ohio State and Oklahoma (twice) and Auburn (three times). Venables said the three – Crimson Tide freshman Jalen Hurts, the Buckeyes’ J.T. Barrett and the Cardinals’ Heisman Trophy victor Lamar Jackson – are all talented players.

After a week of Kiffin voicing the good and bad of his time at Alabama, the odd play calling in Alabama’s 24-7 win over the Huskies and him doing media interviews on the opposite end of the field from where the team celebrated at the Georgia Dome, guess this situation was no longer best for the players.

“They are really fast”, said Browning after the game.