Posted on 01/02/2021 5:11:30 AM PST by grayboots
Ohio State football proved it belonged, and will now attempt to show it stands alone.
The Buckeyes entered Friday’s Sugar Bowl against Clemson in search of a championship identity it had not yet seen on the field in 2020. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney questioned whether Ohio State should be allowed in the College Football Playoff after playing only six games. What had the obviously talented Buckeyes actually shown? Ohio State, and the rest of college football, now have evidence of that elusive, theoretical peak performance.
Justin Fields played with explosive efficiency that, with a few notable exceptions, has been the trademark of his Buckeye career. A rejuvenated Trey Sermon followed a dominant blocking performance to another huge rushing night. The Buckeye defense repeatedly turned Clemson back while the offense played its best first half of the season.
By its own admission, Ohio State needed to play its best game of the season to beat Clemson. By its own resolve, it did, rolling to a 49-28 victory in a College Football Playoff semifinal at the Sugar Bowl.
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Yeah, Clemson has won more against Ohio State than they’ve lost. 4 wins for Clemson, 1 loss.
Ditto for Notre Lame. At least Bama took care of that.
Clemson was a member of the SEC from 1920 - 1953.
https://www.clemson.edu/institutional-effectiveness/oir/resources/acc.html
btw, this playing for a title after a mere five regular season games is absurd;
OSU played five less games. That’s a lot of wear and tare they didn’t incur like everyone else did.
There’s no way to know how this season would have gone if we had a normal schedule with full stadiums and real home field advantages, it’s a glorified exhibition season.
That was spearing. It’s been illegal for a long time, but generally let slide until the past decade. In addition to the player speared, it’s how defenders end up getting paralyzed.
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Ohio State emphatically proves it belongs with 49-28 blowout of Clemson in Sugar Bowl playoff semifinal
Cleveland.com ^ | 1/2/2021 | Nathan Baird
Posted on 1/2/2021, 8:11:30 AM by grayboots
I think you are confusing the Southern Conference with the South Eastern Conference, a mistake I have made in the past. Clemson was never part of the SEC, but was part of the Southern Conference, at least, that’s how I’m understanding your links.
I’m not an expert on the conferences by any means, but unless there was an error on the second link, Clemson is not mentioned in this section.
From your second link:
***The 13 members west and south of the Appalachian Mountains reorganized as the Southeastern Conference at the annual SC meeting of Dec. 8-9, 1932, in Knoxville. The 10 coast members remained in the Southern Conference. Dr. Frank L. McVey of Kentucky was elected president of the new conference whose charter members were: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane and Vanderbilt. (Sewanee withdrew Dec. 13, 1940, Georgia Tech on June 1, 1964 and Tulane on June 1, 1966). McVey held an informal meeting of the school presidents in Birmingham Feb. 16, 1933, then the first full meeting in Atlanta Feb. 27.
Faced with the task of conference realignment after competing with 10 members since 1966, the SEC welcomed the University of Arkansas on Aug. 1, 1990, and the University of South Carolina on Sept. 25, 1990. Both joined the SEC on July 1, 1991.
Fully incorporated into conference competition by 1992, Arkansas and South Carolina participated in SEC championships for all sports except football during the 1991-92 academic year. The SEC was again at the forefront, introducing football, basketball and baseball divisional play and the nation’s first-ever Division I football championship game.
The conference welcomed Texas A&M University on Sept. 25, 2011, and University of Missouri on Nov. 6, 2011, in the only other expansion in SEC history. Both joined the SEC on July 1, 2012 and competed in their first year in all conference sports in 2012-13.***
It is hard to keep all the conference schools and their movement straight, so I acknowledge that I may be misunderstanding.
The previous two games Ohio State played, they played without 20 players in each due to COVID restriction - some of whom were actually ill, but all of whom were barred from any working out for at minimum 10 days. 22, including Olave, against Northwestern.
Didn’t they still practice?
Actually, tacklers helment went on the front of qb’s rib cage and left shoulder pad hit him on the right rib cage. A hard tackle for sure but a legal one. Football is rough game. Injuries are a part of the game. Get over it or get out.
There’s no way to know how this season would have gone if we had a normal schedule with full stadiums and real home field advantages, it’s a glorified exhibition season.
Actually, tacklers helment went on the front of qb’s rib cage and left shoulder pad hit him on the right rib cage. A hard tackle for sure but a legal one. Football is rough game. Injuries are a part of the game. Get over it or get out.
The video clearly shows that, even if the author of the article doesn’t understand the rules either in asking the question he did.
This wasn’t a close call.
Well, the author might understand and just have been making a click-bait title.
The Targeting call is for the safety of both hitter and hitter. Most of the time the Hitler is the one injured by leading with the helmet. Keep Your Head Up
Bama is slow is a hilariously wrong statement. Both Bama and Ohio State have great offensive lines and are loaded with team speed. It will probably be a shoot out.
***But he personally ranked THE OSU at #11 (behind Coastal Carolina) prior to the game. ***
If this is true, then Dabo deserves a bit of derision. Clemson played as though they were playing an inferior opponent. Perhaps that is why Lawrence looked as though he was gonna faint from the loss so late in the game. His eyes kept rolling to the back of his head. He could hardly believe Fields bettered him, but Fields did.
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