B6 THE BULLETIN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2021
“You’ve got to face a little bit of adversity, and sometimes
you’re a little bit blinded by success if you don’t have any
hiccups along the way.”
Sugar Bowl
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“You’ve got to face a little bit
of adversity, and sometimes
you’re a little bit blinded by
success if you don’t have any
hiccups along the way,” Law-
rence said this week.
Clemson (10-1) and Ohio
State (6-0) meet in the playoff
for the third time on Friday
night, with the winner moving
on to the national champion-
ship game against either No. 1
Alabama or No. 4 Notre Dame
on Jan. 11 in suburban Miami.
Clemson has won both the
previous CFP meetings with
Ohio State.
Throw in an Orange Bowl
with the Buckeyes that the
Tigers also won in 2014 and
Ohio State-Clemson feels like a
budding rivalry.
It certainly sounded like one
at times leading up the game,
starting with Clemson coach
Dabo Swinney’s insisting that
Ohio State’s six-game sched-
ule in this pandemic-altered
season should not have been
enough to earn a playoff spot.
Swinney slotted Ohio State
11th in his final coaches’ poll
ballot, explaining he didn’t put
any team with fewer than nine
games in the top 10 — while
also showering praise on the
Rose Bowl
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“We’re just excited that we’re
going to keep banging at this
door and we’re going to get
through.”
These Irish (10-1) go into the
relocated Rose Bowl on New
Year’s Day as three-touchdown
underdogs against Alabama
and the Tide’s Heisman Tro-
phy finalists, quarterback Mac
Jones and receiver DeVonta
Smith. The game was moved
to AT&T Stadium from its
traditional home in Pasadena
because of COVID-19 restric-
tions in California that would
have kept family — and any
other fans — from attending.
When the Cotton Bowl at
AT&T Stadium was a semifi-
nal two years ago, Notre Dame
lost 30-3 to eventual national
champion Clemson in its only
previous CFP appearance. The
No. 2 Tigers, who avenged their
only loss by beating the Irish
34-10 in the ACC title game,
play Ohio State in this season’s
other semifinal Friday night at
the Sugar Bowl.
The semifinal winners are
scheduled to play Jan. 11 in
— Trevor Lawrence, Clemson quarterback
Brian Blanco/AP file
Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence looks for a receiver during the
Atlantic Coast Conference championship game against Notre Dame in
Charlotte, North Carolina, on Dec. 19. Lawrence is looking to make one
more championship run before he likely heads to the NFL.
Buckeyes and coach Ryan Day.
“So people take it personal,
but it’s nothing personal at all,”
Swinney said.
Day admitted with a grin on
a Zoom news conference with
Swinney this week that he was
glad his counterpart wasn’t on
the College Football Playoff se-
lection committee.
The Buckeyes have heard the
complaints about their path to
suburban Miami, where eight
seasons ago in the BCS na-
tional championship game Al-
abama trounced Notre Dame
42-14 in the last meeting be-
tween the storied programs.
“Even after going unde-
feated that year, we lost in the
national championship game,
and we were looked at as not a
very good football team,” Kelly
said. “We needed to look at the
things that could help us grow.
And we’ve been doing that each
and every year.”
Notre Dame is still trying to
catch up with Alabama, which
is in a CFP semifinal for the
sixth time after missing the fi-
nal four for the only time last
year. The Tide are 4-0 at the
home of the NFL’s Dallas Cow-
boys, including 38-0 over Mich-
igan State five seasons ago on
the way to a national champi-
onship. They won another title,
their fifth overall under coach
Nick Saban, three seasons ago.
“It means a lot to come back
here reach our destination, to
keep on building the standard
here,” All-American corner-
back Patrick Surtain II said.
“We just want to take ad-
vantage of where we’re at,” said
the playoff.
“We’re going into this game
not respected at all,” Ohio State
All-America offensive lineman
Wyatt Davis said.
Rivalry? The Tigers do not
seem to have really bought into
the idea.
“They have more beef with
us than we have with them,”
Clemson receiver Amari Rod-
gers said.
It has all made for an inter-
esting subplot to a game that
will almost certainly be the fi-
nal one in college for the losing
junior quarterback. Lawrence
and Fields, both Georgia na-
tives and former five-star re-
cruits in the same freshman
class, are expected to be among
the first few players selected in
the 2021 NFL draft.
Lawrence is a Heisman Tro-
phy finalist and the presump-
tive No. 1 overall pick. He led
the Tigers to a national cham-
pionship as a freshman and got
them back to the title game last
season. Clemson is 34-1 with
Lawrence as the starter.
“He’s as good as there’s ever
been,” Swinney said. “I’ll let
other people argue if he’s the
best ever.”
Fields was a Heisman final-
ist last year and followed that
up with a mostly excellent per-
formance in the playoff. In the
first game he and Lawrence
ever played against each other,
Fields passed for 320 yards. His
final throw was picked off in
the end zone after the intended
Gary Cosby Jr/The Tuscaloosa News via AP file
Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith (6) and quarterback Mac Jones
(10) celebrate a touchdown during a game against Mississippi State in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in October. Alabama is a significant favorite in
the College Football Playoff matchup against Notre Dame in the Rose
Bowl on New Year’s Day in Dallas.
Jones, a junior. “We’re finally
where we want to be.”
Missing in the middle
Alabama will be without
All-America center Landon
Dickerson, a team captain who
is recovering from surgery af-
ter injuring his knee late in the
SEC title game.
“He’s been a great leader on
our team and will certainly be
missed,” Saban said.
Chris Owens, a senior from
Arlington, Texas, will be the
starting center against the Irish.
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receiver slipped.
Clemson won 29-23 in a
game Ohio State led 16-0 that
featured a couple of critical
close calls by the officials that
went the Tigers way.
“So that has kind of been our
whole motivation this offsea-
son. Just getting the chance to
play those guys again is a great
opportunity,” Fields said. “Of
course, we know Clemson is
a great team. Great coaching
staff, great players. So we’re just
excited to be on the same stage
as them and getting another
chance to play those guys.”
Who’s here?
Clemson will be without of-
fensive coordinator and play-
caller Tony Elliott, who is in
COVID-19 protocol and did
not make the trip to New Or-
leans.
Swinney said quarterbacks
coach Brandon Streeter will
fill Elliott’s role in the coach’s
box. Former Clemson star C.J.
Spiller, who has been working
as an intern under Elliott, will
be elevated to running backs
Skill sets
Alabama’s offense has
Heisman finalists Jones and
Smith, plus a big-scoring, du-
al-threat tailback in Najee Har-
ris, who has rushed for 1,262
yards and 24 touchdowns, and
caught 32 passes for 316 yards
and three more scores.
Smith has 98 catches for
1,511 yards and 17 TDs. Jones
has completed 76.5% of his
passes for 3,739 yards with 32
touchdowns and four intercep-
tions.
Ian Book, a fifth-year senior
and two-time captain, is No-
tre Dame’s winningest starting
quarterback at 30-4. He has
thrown for 2,601 yards and 15
TDs, with 430 yards and eight
scores rushing. Sophomore
running back Kyren Williams
has 1,061 yards rushing with
12 TDs, and Javon McKinley
has four 100-yard receiving
games.
Quick turnaround
The Rose Bowl will be the
second New Year’s Six game
played at AT&T Stadium in less
than 48 hours. Oklahoma beat
Florida 55-20 in the Cotton
Bowl on Wednesday night, and
coach and be on the sideline.
Swinney said two players did
not make the trip Wednesday
to New Orleans, one walk-on
and one scholarship player, but
did not identify them.
As for Ohio State, they were
scheduled to leave Columbus
on Thursday after one more
round of COVID-19 testing.
The Buckeyes have been with-
out numerous players their last
two games because of virus
protocols, though star receiver
Chris Olave is expected back in
the lineup.
“Full strength is a floating
target right now,” Day said.
Half empty
Nolan Turner, the Clemson
safety who picked off Fields a
year ago, will not play the first
half of the Sugar Bowl after
being ejected for targeting in
the second half of the Atlantic
Coast Conference champion-
ship game against Notre Dame.
Sophomore Joseph Charleston
will get increased playing time
with Turner unavailable.
Mostly empty
Because of COVID-19 re-
strictions, only 3,000 fans are
expected to be in attendance
at the Superdome. Attendance
for last season’s title game with
LSU and Clemson was 76,885.
the turnover of the stadium
began almost immediately af-
terward. That game had a lim-
ited capacity crowd of 17,323,
and the Rose Bowl attendance
should be similar.
Short trip
Like they would during the
regular season, the Crimson
Tide traveled from campus
Thursday, the day before the
game.
“Just going today as if this is
a normal road trip for us, but
certainly not a normal game
for us,” Saban said.
Friendly foes
Alabama RB Harris and No-
tre Dame QB Book, who grew
up 90 miles from each other in
Northern California, once were
7-on-7 teammates for TMP of
Sacramento.
“The plan was if we were
ever down, you just throw it up
and Najee would go catch it.
He was playing receiver for us.
And he did that. That’s how we
were able to win some games,”
Book said.
“He does an amazing job
getting the ball to his playmak-
ers,” Harris said.
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