Think the fact that its been ten straight weeks, the wear and tear, physically and emotionally and everything thats at stake when youre number one, everybody wants to take down number one. Chris williams. A big cushion over there. Thats an easy pitch and catch. And davis is going to get first down yardage. Kirk you just dont see that very often from the corners from clemson. From alexander or tankersley. Its tankersley into the boundary on the short side. He was bailing and backing off adams, and a very simple read and throw for a veteran like marquise williams and davis, both seniors. Great chemistry. Chris williams pressured. Balls out. Tigers have it as ton bryant, the freshman you mentioned came in and recovered the fumble. Bid for clemson, perhaps. Kirk shaq lawson back in the lineup and he just has been doing this all year. This is spap, in, trying to slow him down, and there is that relentless effort. Ben boulware blitzes. He gets in, as well. Hood cannot slow boulware down. But the combination of two defenders, boulware and lawson. Theyve been doing it all year for the tigers. And they come up with maybe the play of the year. Chris when youre tired and just trying to hang on, go knock the ball out of the quarterbacks hands. And now with 6 38 to play, figure to see a heavy dose of Wayne Gallman. As clemson just tries to get to the finish line here. Head home for the pizza party tomorrow. And then the playoff. Gallman cuts it back. Big gain down inside the 35. Kirk youre right about Wayne Gallman running the ball. You love to see when peake blocks, 19, its watch to the left. Watch Charone Peake block. Talk about being unselfish. Hes become better known for his blocking as he is as a receiver. The only guy thats been around and played in 2011 on that acc Championship Team came in with sammy watkins, has been through a lot with some injuries, really put it together this year and having an outstanding senior year. Chris i love it when you salute receivers that make blocks on the edge. The dirty work of that position, right . Kirk exactly. Chris gallman again. Just running downhill hard. Nine more for the tigers. Kirk i dont know if ive seen him run with such conviction as hes run here in this second half. I think he was frustrated with the way the first half went. Could not get loose and in this better job im telling you, hes just running through arm tackling s e tackles. Chris terry allen works with him, the former clemson great, nfl stud, had almost 9,000 rushing yards in his career. Tony elliott was the cooffensive coordinator, the running backs coach, but hes calling the plays and really terry alps played an ed ed an vumental role. He was drafted 241st out of college. Willed himself to be a great player. Kirk does a lot of work on how to be a great running back, but the humility you carry yourself with, which is exactly how gallman plays the game. How about the speed option . You haveeshawn eshaun watson coming right at you. Take away watson, he deals it to 15 yards. Chris gallman said, just feed me again. And they do. Back to the boundary. Earns about four yards. Kirk when you talk to the clemson coaches and you watch them, in the past, its been aboutkins and c. J. Spiller and tajh boyd. I think this year, you can really see the confidence that they have in the offensive line and the running game. Its no longer just about the perimeter. Its about the physicality and running the football with gallman and deshaun watson. Whats ironic about that is the concern when this season started with the line. Five new starters on this offensive line and theyve become a real strength for this team. Chris gallman again. Picks his way. This is a slow death for carolina, as he gets down near the first down marker. It will be third and short. This system isnt asked to, you know, get down in a threepoint stance and blow people five, seven yards off the ball. Old school style of football like you might see with stanford or wisconsin. This is more of just kind of, get a hat on a hat, cover a guy up and let Wayne Gallman kind of find the hole and he has such great vision and quickness that you dont have to blow people off the ball. Just, like i said, cover him up and let him do the right. Chris this time its watson. Rolling out, keeping it. He is dropped for a loss. Collins, the linebacker was there, and its fourth down. Kirk heck of a play there by collins. Chris tried to get watson, his third rushing touchdown. Hes also rushed for over 100 yards. 1 22, to compliment gallman. The offense on the field here. Kirk go up by 15 and get a touchdown and a twopoint conversion. Chris swinney is going to let the play clock wind down and then see if he spends a timeout. Looks like theyll take the delay. Kick the field goal. Opportunity has no slow season. No offdays, or downtime. T opportunity is everything you make of it. 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Not a mint. It s a breakthrough in cool. Ice breakers cool blasts. Postgame trophy ceremony, you can follow it on espn3. 2 14 to play. Tar heels will get the ball back down 15 after the chip shot field goal. Touchdown would have erased any hope. But theres still a twoscore game game, in theory. Saw a very satisfied looking deshaun watson. 26 of 42, 289. Three touchdowns. One pick. And has a runner, carried it 22 times for 1 22 and a couple more touchdowns. So, hes up to 40 touchdowns, responsible for this season. Actually 41. Lets not slight him. 41 total touchdowns. Espn has you covered. 9 00 a. M. Start time for nfl insiders to give you all the news. Then, at 10 00, sunday nfl countdown. Look at the panthers own cam newton wearing a microphone in soundtracks and that all leads into the College Football overen oh on espn. So, the game clock has been reset to 2 19. And lakip to kick it off. Dont want a big return so they just boot it on the ground. Eventually picked up at the 25. And romar morris is knocked down. Our lgv championship saturday. Theres a flag late after the return. Lets check out that first and then well show you some of the memorable moments from today. Referee unsportsmanlike conduct on number 24. This is 24s first unsportsmanlike conduct. Chris that is another mental mistake. Herschel walkers single season today. A monster afternoon for derrick henry. Alabama secures the s. E. C. Stanford beat uscf the second time. They win the pac12. But they needed a clemson loss to make a case. Kirk yeah. Probably well, they are headed to the rose bowl now. Chris how about that penalty . A dead ball sets the heels up at midfield and now williams scampered for five. Thats just inexcusable. There have been a lot of those tonight for clemson. Fields who is from charlotte. Hadnt been playing a lot and dabo swinney again. Hes been working a few of the players over. Thats all you can do as a coach and then get in the film room and hope they learn. Even his teammates are trying to calm him down. Field is a freshman. Only chance he gets is special teams. Chris williams pressured. Jump ball. Over the head on the receiver there. Alexander was in coverage. Theyre not showing a lot of urgency for being down 15 in the last two minutes here. Kirk they better find somebody to help bentley spain. 90 in orange, hes a handful, as weve seen all year. Shaq lawson, again, gets the pressure and gets in from the blindside to affect marquise williams. Chris need six on that third down. They pick up the pressure this time and williams delivers but over the head over mack hollins, its fourth down. Ford wrapup follows the game and this is it for carolina to keep any hope alive. Got to get the six yards. Kirk and again, theyve got to i dont know if theyre going to chip with the tight end to help. Got to do something to slow down the pressure from the blindside of williams. Chris do you blitz . Keep coming off the quarterback . Kirk its been effective. But right here is the guy they have to watch. Chris they rush only four. Williams has room. Has a first down and a lot more. Weaving down into the red zone. 1 30 to play and the heels are threatening. Kirk wow. Interesting. Boulware blitzed, but they played mantoman under and they lost the quarterback. And because of that speed, he picks up huge yards. Chris the chains werent even set and the heels are playing and williams throwing for the end zone. Second down. Kirk the chains arent set. Balls are being snapped. Chris those guys over there were hustling as they could and the heels are ready to go. Kirk theyre not slowing down for anything. That ball gets by, theyre ready to roll. Chris theres urgency now. Davis has to come off the field. Kirk they have all three timeouts. If they can score without using one one, it can be interesting. Chris williams delivers short. Catch made. Switzer escapes and scores, and hold on the heels cut into the lead. Kirk go back to the un unsportsmanlike penalty on the kickoff. Gave them great field goal range. Gave them life. And how about switzer . Tough little guy. Electric. And another mental error cost they had this game put away. Chris weiler for the p. A. T. To make it an eightpoint game. Knocks it through. That took only 1 01 to cover the 49 yards. To Cassidy Hubbarth with an update that will interest everybody who is thinking about the playoff. Cassidy . Crazy update for the big ten championship game. Michigan state was stopped on first down and second down. L. J. Scott looks to be stopped on third down, but finds a way in, capping off a 22point, 82yard drive. Over 9 04. Its 1613, Michigan State with under 20 to play. Back to you guys. Chris 22play drive . Kirk think about that. With so much at stake. 17 runs out of the 22 plays. How about Mark Dantonio . And on a fourth down, they ran chris so, now having those three timeouts, do you kick it deep and play defense . The tigers are expecting an onsides kick. Kirk you have to kick an onsides kick. Chris they tried a couple. Weiler has not succeeded this year. But all of a sudden, youre right, this game looked to be completely over. They got the stop and forced the field goal attempt. Kirk clemson at times tonight their own worst enemy. Chris got a couple kickers in there, so, who is going to end up booting it . Theres deception right here. Gets the hop it was mission handled. Ball is still bouncing around and the heels have it at midfield a flag did come in. Kirk i think its offsides on North Carolina. Referee offsides, kicking team. Fiveyard penalty. Rekick. The kicker who came in there and booted it. But they going to have to rekick it now. Kirk i want to see where this offsides is. Because i didnt see it. Chris i didnt, either. Another look kirk 30 is the closest, but hes not offsides. Nobodys offsides unless it was on the other side. Unless it was from the other side. That shot doesnt show, to me, doesnt show anybody offside. Kirk nobodys offsides. Flag will come from the bottom. Nobodys offsides. It looked like hunter crawford, the linebacker dave, is that reviewable reviewable . That is not a reviewable play. Kirk wow. 30 is the closest, but i have to agree with you. I dont see a clear offsides there. Chris neither did fedora. Wow. Kirk oh, my god. Chris that took a hop. It looked like it was mishandled by the tigers. Recovered at the 50 and the heels with three timeouts kirk oh, my gosh. Chris would have been in business. The same look on this onsides kick. This time, its weiler. And this ones fielded, the hit made, it didnt go ten yards but the ball came out a scramble now back at the 30. Orange ball. Can you read the lip of the officials and clemson has recovered, but not without attempt. Kirk wow. Thats a shame. Chris those guys got a running start on the previous attempt. And maybe the official just an anticipated it was going to be offsides. Heres the second one. Kirk wow. Boy, great hit there by the linebacker, schoettmer. Ball is loose and now, its just i thought elijah hood might get on top of it. Switzers right there. Chris renfrow is going to get credited. Played. You can hit the guy there. Kirk i want to go back to the first one, chris. I still maybe were missing something. Lets check again. Theres nobody offsides. Chris not even really within a yard. Referee timeout chris that call, not reviewable, would have given North Carolina the football at the 50 down eight. Kirk with three timeouts. Chris instead, clemson now will have 1 08 to just bleed out a hardearned win and now, a ruling of a clemson recovery. Hasnt been the easiest year for acc officials. Thats for sure. A lot of funny stuff. This had been a very wellofficiated game until this moment. So, dave, theyll challenge and look at the ruling of a clemson recovery, but isnt this tough to overturn with replay . Very much so. You have to look for two things. A recovery in the immediate and nobody stopped playing. And you have to be able to see a clear recovery. It has to be clear. Chris heres what theyll check. Kirk, schoettmer delivered a big loose. And then the scramble is on and renfro, number 13 there for the tigers reached around and got the ball. Kirk yep. You know, Michigan State now this will stay. Kirk Michigan State now in indianapolis, they are win. They beat iowa, like you said. We know about oklahoma. We noack alabama. This gets settled here with this challenge. Now, it comes down to, how do you rank these top four . Iowas now out. You got Michigan State in. Referee after further review, the ruling on the field is confirmed. Kirk and now it looks like chris confirmed it is clemson bag with 1 08. Dabo swinney was adamant. He felt like if they beat the number ten ranked team on a neutral field that, having been number one in every set of rankings, he furmly expected to keep that top seed. Kirk i cant imagine the committee, with him being undefeated, with the teams they had to play, notre dame, Florida State, North Carolina. Chris watson makes a couple of guys miss. Needs to protect the ball more than gain yards. The heels will spend a timeout. Kirk alabama has seven wins theyve looked very good. These last six, seven, eight chris the eye test versus the resume. Kirk exactly. Thats what jeff long and the committee, when they get into the room tonight and in the morning, those are the things theyre going to have to talk about. Not just about the resume. We get caught up in the resume, but its not just the resume. Chris but it is just about the order. Because we know the four teams. Thats a lock. Have theres no suspension, like last year. So, we know the four teams, or at least we think we do. Kirk the suspension is, who is going to play who and where . Thats still interesting. Chris ive wondered from the start, because of the fluidity of the rankings near the end of the process last year, whether or not they might move some teams around as gallman fights for a yard. You know, they would never say that matchup manipulate is part of the equation, but if you sop down clemson down, moving alabama up, not having the big ten team in that fourth spot, they could be accused of trying to adjust the matchups for whatever reason. Kirk after watching all the games today and what was at stake coming in with Michigan State and iowa being a 45 game, with the way that game unfolded, i dont want to asoup anything. But i think i would speculate that the Michigan State winning, beating iowa, will probably be at four. So, i think its really more about, where do they how do they deal with clemson, oklahoma what order are those three teams . Moving oklahoma up. I guess the bigger question would be, do they flip alabama over clemson . Or, if you keep clemson at number one, they would be placed in the orange bowl on new years top seed being, giving geographic preference. Watson dives down at the 20 and that will do it. Not without some drama and a little controversy at the end with that phantom offsides call. But it looks like the player of the year in the acc is going to be the quarterback of the acc champions. Dr. Pepper unrivaled player of the game, not much suspension there. 421 total yards, five touchdowns responsible for. Victory formation as the tigers are going to win their 16th in a row. Next stop, new years eve and the playoff for the champions of the acc. Swinney. Disappointment again for marquise williams. Losses bookending the tar heels season here in charlotte. And the quarterback just 11 of 33 33. Kirk class, larry fedora. Chris now, heather, once again with dabo swinney. Its become a familiar ritual. Heather a bit of a tradition for the two of us. Yes heather congratulations, coach. You told me that last year you had to watch this one on tv and it was the ultimate frustration. You vowed it would be you this year. How good does it feel to make that, fulfill that goal . It feels great. This division, you know, weve lost one game the last two years and hadnt been able to make it to the championship. You have to go undefeated to get to our championship. Just proud of our guys, man. Was playing, that was good enough for the national championship, not anymore. All it does is get us a chance to go play for it. But man, what a great game. Thats what College Footballs all about. Hey, North Carolina, goodness gracious. Im glad thats over. Im glad thats over. Great effort on their part. Just our team has had heart and guts all year long. I mean, they have found ways to win. Whether its a big turnover, big play. We got the best player in this conference and the best player in the country in deshawn watt sop. I think he moved that again tonight. But at the end of the game, our over. I dont know what we ran for, it was a bunch. We ran a ton of plays. Had some mistakes and then our defense, you know, had a couple of big turnovers, none bigger than that last one right there at the end to give us the ball back. What a great win. Happy for the tiger nation. 130 and were looking forward to a pizza party tomorrow in death valley, baby. Heather you made a promise, you are going to have to keep that. Undefeated. Nation. Now, youre acc champs. What are you the most proud of . Im just proud of our team and our staff for coming together, you know . You dont accomplish things like this without a great belief in one another. And a love for one another. And these guys, you know, i told them i told them tonight, they already had won this game. They won it, you know, from january until right now. Tonight was just go take care of business. But a group of winners and listen, man, im just i am just fortunate to be part of it. The good lord has planted me here in clemson and given me an opportunity to lead these young men and im thankful for that. Its been a special season but we aint done yet. We still got a little more in us but this was a lot of fun tonight. Heather so, im going to give you the chance to make your case to the committee on where you should be ranked tomorrow. Well, we got three top ten wins. Anybody else got that . I dont think so. And were 130. Them all. Nobody made it easy on us, either. That ought to be an easy decision for them. Well look forward to figure ing out who were going to go play and well give our players off next week, got a lot of recruiting to go do, as the acc champs for the 15th time, and well keep rolling. Heather all right, coach, congratulations. Enjoy that pizza party. Lets go over to tom rinaldi with deshaun watson. Tom thank you. Deshaun, on the field before the game, your coach said, its a championship, so, its simple. Hands. Mean to you . It means a lot. He trusts in me to lead this team, lead this offense, you know, to get the big wins and thats the reason why i play this game. For moments like this. And times like this and thats the reason why i committed here. Tom how do you describe the journey from committing to all the other schools that came after you in the interim, to the knee injury, to taking this team over to winning a conference title . You know, when i committed tee, i knew it was the right choice and when i came here and had the injuries, you know, i really didnt know what was going on but i kept faith in god and i knew he was going to take me on the right path and this time last year i was getting ready for surgeriry and god is amazing, and just give him all the glory. Tom you said that it was a lifelong dream from the time you were a little boy to win a Heisman Trophy. Youve never been to new york city. What do you think it will mean to have the chance very likely here to bring your mom to new york with you . It would be a blessing. Never been to new york city. And my mom never been to new york city. You know, as far as shes been is probably boston when we went to Boston College last year. It one a blessing. Im going to embrace it if you have the opportunity to go and just enjoy it. Tom finally, how do you like your pizza . Pepperoni. Large pepperoni with a sprite, since we dont play tomorrow, im going to get a sprite on the side. Tom theyll be able to chris . Chris tom, thank you. Dabo made that promise and i think you can see the emotion in deshauns voice. You saw the shot of his mom, and she can head to the pizza party with perhaps 20,000 fans. Looking for 2,500 pizzas. 156 gatorade coolers worth of sauce and pushups to burn off the calories. Kirk and one sprite for the Heisman Trophy quarterback. Chris you saw pride, you saw relief in swinney. That thing got interesting at the end and carolina fans, so much to focus on in this game, theyre going to remember that the phantom offside call that would have set them up at the 50 yard line, eight points down with three timeouts and 1 11. Kirk clemson wins the game. They finished the season undefeated and theyre onto the, into the top four, probably as a one seed. But theres a lot for them to learn from. They allowed North Carolina to hang around and because, in many cases, some of the just sloppy play. Some penalty ies at crucial times that kept North Carolina in the game and kept giving carolina some life but at the end of the day, they win. You put an exclamation point on this season and you move on and get ready for the postseason. Chris no need to lobby for the top seed. If we beat North Carolina, it is a third top ten one, its a third win over a tenwin team, which no clemson team has ever done. Do you think the committee will say, thats more than good enough to keep clemson on the top line . Kirk yeah, i think if you throw the eye test in, i think both oklahoma and alabama have really impressed me, anyway, in these last five, six weeks. But its very hard to argue with what clemson has achieved this year on the field and the results on the field, which was that he just talked about, beating the likes of notre dame and Florida State and now here in North Carolina and thats very impressive. Chris there is only one 130 fbs team with iowa falling just at the last minute to Michigan State. Clemson stands as the only so, not much suspension. No suspension, really, about the four playoff teams but intrigue in the order which would set up those new years eve semifinal kirk thats right. We know the four teams. Now just a matter of who will be seeded where and where will these teams end up playing. People can make their plane ticket reservations yet. Chris next stop, new years eve for the tigers. They hope, in miami, as the top seed. Well, exhale and get ready for tomorrow at noon eastern time on espn, well have the reveal of those semifinal matchups. This game was produced by bill bonnell. And we thank our final ement e al talented crew. Well see you next time from one of those semifinals on new years eve. For kirk, tom and heather, chris fowler saying good night from charlotte. The ford wrapup show is coming up next. Trophy presentation over on espn3. To cassidy. Thanks, chris. Be in, stating the obvious