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Gotta love this paragraph though, giving us credit
Jan 1, 2016, 4:13 PM
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"Clemson, which is 7-7 against SEC teams under Swinney, also looks like a team that can physically match up with Alabama at the line of scrimmage and is decidedly superior at several positions, most critically at quarterback. As Alabama is an SEC team, it's mostly unfamiliar with playing against a good quarterback."
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Holy crap. The writer actually dissed the SEC
Jan 1, 2016, 8:27 PM
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At least he threw one slight towards the league. That said, it is true that the SEC Quarterback list is nothing to write home about. I mean, the 2nd team All-SEC QB is an ACC castoff.
Good luck in the title game!
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Seemed pretty logical to me and without any real bias.***
Jan 1, 2016, 4:14 PM
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110%er [6681]
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Alabama - "Death Star" vs "the upstarts, the free spirit'...
Jan 1, 2016, 4:27 PM
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If college football fans squint their eyes just right when Clemson rubs on "Howard's Rock" and then runs down the hill in Death Valley amid thunderous cheers, many would swear they were attending an SEC football game. Folks down south view Clemson as the most SEC of teams that aren't SEC, so folks from everywhere else might look at the Tigers' showdown with Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T on Jan. 11 (ESPN, 8:30 p.m. ET) in Glendale, Arizona, as a glorified SEC game.
Yet the inadequacy of that very sentiment -- obsessive regionalism! -- also enriches this game, which is already rife with enrapturing plotlines.
Yes, a good ol' southern brawl in the desert will decide the 2015 national championship, but the ACC-SEC schism is as real and freighted with meaning as the bitter divide between the SEC and everyone else. This game also is about darkness and light and the shadow of Bear Bryant. As Clemson coach Dabo Swinney would and surely will say, "Bring your own guts."
No. 1 Clemson and No. 2 Alabama more than validated their rankings with dominant showings in the New Year's Eve semifinals. Clemson rolled over Oklahoma 37-17, owning the second half by a 21-zip count. Speaking of zip, Alabama simply smothered overmatched Michigan State 38-0, outgaining the Spartans 440 yards to 239.
Everyone expected Alabama to be here. It will be aiming for its fourth national title in seven seasons. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban will get a shot at his fifth national title, which would tie him with Bryant as the only coach in major college history to win five.
At this juncture in college football history the Tide is the sport's Death Star. Alabama's longstanding dominance and seemingly superior talent as well as its often dour head coach force the program to don black hats.
Meanwhile, Clemson and colorful, quotable, dancing-king coach Swinney are the upstarts, the free spirits, the good guys. The Tigers' only national championship came in 1981, and only this season did we learn via Swinney that "Clemsoning" -- aka Clemson finding bizarre ways to lose -- is no longer a thing
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Orange Blooded [3521]
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####, ESPN owns 51% of the South Eastern Conference***
Jan 1, 2016, 6:34 PM
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Walk-On [118]
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Re: Wow much ESPN...
Jan 1, 2016, 7:30 PM
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So if we when the natty is the sec or the acc going to claim it?
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Orange Blooded [3350]
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Re: Wow much ESPN...
Jan 1, 2016, 7:32 PM
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They want us in the sec so bad
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Re: Wow much ESPN...
Jan 1, 2016, 7:39 PM
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Would it not be Hilarious if the asked Scar to leave and Invited Clemson to join?
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Re: Wow much ESPN...
Jan 1, 2016, 7:48 PM
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Scar academics doesn't meet ACC requirements.
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teams like State, UNC, UVa and Duke
Jan 1, 2016, 7:34 PM
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do not want us to win. FSU might pull the conference card just because it helps them a bit, but the rest want us to lose
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