ACC Wins The One That Mattered

The Atlantic Coast Conference backed up their great first 11 games in the Bowl games of  2016/17 by winning the one  game that justified the Bowl year for the ACC winning the National Championship game.  Clemson 35 Alabama 31

The ACC goes 9-3 in Bowl games while the Southeastern Conference went 7-7.  No other conference came close to the ACC's performance. Looking back to the NCAA College World Series the state of South Carolina has won the last two so called major titles with Coastal Carolina winning the baseball and now Clemson's football victory.

The football game didn't start very well for the Tigers as the Bama run game produced a 7-0 lead in the first quarter but the momentum shifter occurred on two non calls by officials.  Twice in the first quarter the Bama defense  should have been called for targeting on two tackles to the head of Clemson players but mysteriously no flags.  This seemed to slow the Tiger offense while they  recovered. The Tiger defense held Bama down just enough to 16-7 at the half.

Alabama led going into the fourth quarter but Clemson scored three times including the last score on the last play of the game..  This marks the second straight year that these two have played in the final game and both were memorable.  It also marks the first time in Saban's career at Bama that they gave up a lead in the fourth quarter.  He had been 96-0 before Monday night.

Even though I never officially put on this blog that I thought Clemson would win it has come down to another story of the mighty no way anybody can beat them has done it.  All of the talk since the first of December was is there anybody that can keep it close against Bama?  The Clemson defense showed in the Ohio State game that they were ready shutting out the Buckeyes.

Despite the slow first half start Clemson finished the game with over 500 yards of offense for the game.  Just in the last two championship games Deshaun Watson the Clemson quarterback has accounted for more than 800 yard passing and running and 8 touchdowns.

It is now about time that all the hoopla over the Southeastern Conference and how great they are needs to take a reality check  since 2013 the ACC has two National titles playing in three of the four title games while the SEC has won one  title and losing twice to the ACC in title games.  It is time that the ACC is be declared king of college football.