I’m currently in the middle of the California desert making my way to Scottsdale where my Tigers will be playing tomorrow night in the Fiesta Bowl. I don’t think anyone cares about the LSU-Oklahoma game, so the review for that is going to be minuscule. The game that all of America wants to watch is the 2 vs. 3 seed game. Ohio State and Clemson are running it back with a rematch of the 2016 Fiesta Bowl that saw Clemson kicking the shit out of OSU, 31-0. I was at that game and what a site it was. Thousands of obnoxious snow birds made the trek to the desert to watch their beloved Buckeyes get their teeth kicked in. I’ll try to retain my journalistic integrity for the remainder of this post, but Ohio State fans are the absolute worst fans in all of college football. Apart from your school and their rival, I would like to think that everyone who has come face-to-face with OSU fans agree. Alright let’s get into this CFP Semifinal review.
#1 LSU vs. #4 Oklahoma
No shot Oklahoma wins, right? Can we agree on that? Yeah, it’s a cool story that Jalen Hurts transferred from Bama and took his new team to the CFB Playoff. Unfortunately, the fairy tale ends there. Personally, I think Oregon would put up a better fight than Oklahoma. I’m not saying they should have put in Oregon instead of Oklahoma, but just think that would be a better game.
Coming off a heisman trophy ceremony where Joe Burrow got damn-near every single vote, I would be surprised to see him and the Tigers stumble in this one. Oklahoma is probably the 4th best team LSU will play all season, and the Tigers handled the pressure of the SEC schedule about as well as they could this year.
The National Championship game in New Orleans will be the biggest shit-show of a weekend since….well I guess since last years Mardi Gras now that they Tigers will be in attendance
Prediction: LSU 32 Oklahoma 17
#2 Ohio State vs. #3 Clemson
Clemson’s schedule has been God-awful this season. Thanks to schools scheduling games 20 years in advance, the Clemson-Texas A&M game in week 3 was anticlimactic. I’m sure when the game was scheduled back in 1983, both Clemson and A&M were title contenders though. Thanks to a last-minute thriller against UNC, Clemson was back in the “fraud” category even after coming off a national championship last season. Dabo then began to ask every single member of the media in the entire South why people question Clemson. Well, you almost lost the UNC…so that’s why. I think every team Clemson played this season ended up at about .500, so hats off to the ACC for another stellar season of riding Clemson’s coattails. Then they played the perennial powerhouse of the ACC, Virginia, in the conference championship game.
It seems like all the talking heads at ESPN love Ohio State this year, and for good reason. The team has boat-raced nearly all of their opponents so far. Their biggest scare came in the B1G Championship game against Wisconsin when they trailed at halftime. This game should be a close one, and I can’t wait to watch it
Prediction: Clemson 34 Ohio State 28
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