Your trusty and semi-daily college football bowl preview that today takes a quick-hit look at the Dec. 28 bowl menu, one that features four games, including both College Football Playoff semifinals.
WHO: Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Iowa State (7-5)
WHAT: The 30th Camping World Bowl
WHERE: Camping World Stadium, Orlando, Florida
WHEN: Noon ET on ABC
THE LINE: Iowa State, +4
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WHO: Penn State (10-2) vs. Memphis (12-1)
WHAT: The 83rd Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
WHERE: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
WHEN: Noon ET on ESPN
THE LINE: Memphis, +7
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WHO: No. 1 LSU (13-0) vs. No. 4 Oklahoma (12-1)
WHAT: The 27th Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (College Football Playoff semifinal)
WHERE: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia
WHEN: 4 p.m. ET on ESPN
THE LINE: Oklahoma, +13½
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WHO: No. 2 Ohio State (13-0) vs. No. 3 Clemson (13-0)
WHAT: The 49th PlayStation Fiesta Bowl (College Football Playoff semifinal)
WHERE: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
WHEN: 8 p.m. ET on ESPN
THE LINE: Ohio State, +2½
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As we head deeper into bowl season, Ross Blacklock of TCU is the latest to catch an early draft.
As all of the cool early entrants are doing, Blacklock announced on Twitter Friday that he will be a part of the 2020 NFL Draft pool. A redshirt junior, the defensive tackle is leaving a year of eligibility on the table.
“This decision has been weighing on me for some time now,” Blacklock wrote. “A wise man once told me, ‘follow your heart, and you’ll never go wrong.’
“Playing in the NFL has always been a dream of mine since I was 5 years old.”
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that the NFL’s Advisory Committee told Blacklock to put those dreams on hold for another season and return to the Horned Frogs in 2020. If Blacklock doesn’t sign with an agent, he could change his mind and come back to TCU.
Draft-eligible players have until Jan. 20 to officially file their paperwork with the league.
Love 🤝💜 #1k pic.twitter.com/XYwOnPpgJx
— Ross Blacklock (@1krozayy) December 27, 2019
Blacklock missed the entire 2018 season because of an Achilles injury. He returned this season to start a dozen games. Following the regular season, he was named first-team All-Big 12.
As a redshirt freshman in 2017, the 6-4, 305-pound Blacklock started all 14 games for the Horned Frogs. His 6.5 tackles for loss were good for fourth on the team.
Along with Oklahoma linebacker Kenneth Murray, Blacklock was named co-Defensive Freshman of the Year at the end of the 2017 regular season.
Follow @cftalkTo Florida State from Texas A&M, Jashaun Corbin’s roller coaster ride of a season continues.
In September, Corbin went down with a season-ending hamstring injury. Earlier this month, the running back entered the NCAA transfer database. Saturday morning, the Florida native announced that he has committed to continuing his playing career at FSU.
Corbin’s announcement came one day after his former team came back to win the Texas Bowl.
I’m coming home. Let’s get to work 🍢 #GoNoles pic.twitter.com/A4FAIJ97cK
— Jashaun Corbin (@Jashaun06) December 28, 2019
Corbin started the first two games of the 2019 season before going down with the injury, rushing for 137 yards in that limited action. As a true freshman the year before, he totaled 346 yards and a touchdown on 61 carries.
A four-star 2018 signee, Corbin was rated as the No. 8 all-purpose back in the country. He was also the No. 49 player at any position in the state of Florida. Only one skill player in A&M’s class that year, wide receiver Jalen Preston, was rated higher.
Corbin had originally committed to FSU, but ended up following Jimbo Fisher to the Aggies.
FSU will seek a waiver from the NCAA that would allow Corbin to play in 2020. If that waiver is denied, he’d have two seasons of eligibility beginning in 2021 after sitting out next season.
Based on Nick Saban‘s latest remarks, the Alabama saga that is Scooby Carter continues.
On his radio show in mid-November, Saban revealed that he had to suspend a player for the Mississippi State game in Starkville because he missed a class, although the head coach didn’t reveal the player’s identity at the time; on the day of the game, it was confirmed that the player in question was Carter (pictured, No.11). Not long after, the true freshman cornerback announced that he was entering his name into the NCAA transfer database.
A month later, Carter’s father revealed that his son had opted to remain at ‘Bama and rejoined the Crimson Tide football team. The purported return was preceded by at least one conversation with Saban.
In an update Friday, however, Saban indicated that Carter remains away from the team. In fact, Carter hasn’t practiced with the team since that initial suspension. And his name is still in the transfer portal.
The coach did, though, state that the door remains open for a return.
“Scooby can have another opportunity to be on the team. If he wants to start with the team next semester in school, we’ll give him another opportunity at that time — if he did okay in school,” Saban said. “We are trying to be supportive and help him to do the things that he needs to do to have a chance to be successful as a person, as a student-athlete and as a player. We will give him an opportunity to come back next semester if he wants to do that.”
Carter was a four-star member of the Crimson Tide’ 2019 recruiting class, rated as the No. 9 cornerback in the country and the No. 15 player at any position in the state of Texas. He was the highest-rated corner signed by the Tide this past cycle.
In three games this season, Carter has been credited with one tackle. Because he has only played in those three games, he could take a redshirt for the 2019 season.
Follow @cftalkWHO: No. 3 Clemson (13-0) vs. No. 2 Ohio State (13-0)
WHAT: College Football Playoff semifinal at the 49th PlayStation Fiesta Bowl
WHEN: 8 p.m. ET on ESPN
WHERE: State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
THE SKINNY: Over at my other job I ranked the 10 best games of the 2010s, and I think we can all agree this one has a chance to force a last-minute addendum. Simply put, it’s hard to arrange a better game on paper than one 13-0 team winning by an average score of 49-13 playing another 13-0 team winning by an average of 47-11, who happens to be the defending national champions. Particularly when these two 13-0 teams have the history that Ohio State and Clemson do.
Ohio State is the historically superior of these two, but Clemson has notched important wins over the Buckeyes in its own quest to the top of college football. In fact, these teams have played all of three times, all Clemson wins, all important turning points for Ohio State. First, of course, was the 1978 Gator Bowl that served as the final straw for Woody Hayes. More recently, Clemson beat Ohio State in the 2014 Orange Bowl, a game that showed Ohio State still had work to do in its chase for the title under Urban Meyer and one that served as a milestone win for Clemson’s rise under Dabo Swinney. Then, there was the 2016 Fiesta Bowl, a game where the Tigers completely flattened the Buckeyes, winning 31-0 while limiting JT Barrett to an anemic 127 yards and two interceptions on 33 passing attempts. Clemson would go on to win its first of two (and counting) national titles under Swinney a week later, while Ohio State set off a series of moves that led them back to where they are.
In the days following that 2016 Fiesta Bowl, Meyer released Tim Beck as his offensive coordinator and hired Ryan Day to revamp his broken downfield passing game. Day quickly demonstrated competence beyond his initial task, becoming Ohio State’s sole offensive coordinator after the 2017 season, the interim head coach ahead of the 2018 campaign and the full-time head coach afterward.
And now they’re here, back in the playoff for the first time, facing the same team in the same spot they were embarrassed by three seasons prior. This time, Ohio State brings a quarterback in Justin Fields averaging 9.6 yards per attempt with an eye-popping 40 touchdowns against one interception. The Heisman finalist also rushed for 471 yards and 10 touchdowns thus far, but he’s admitted this week his bum knee will immobilize him more than he’d like, in which case the Buckeyes will have to lean on their Doak Walker finalist running back JK Dobbins (1,829 yards, 20 touchdowns), their Joe Moore Award finalist offensive line, and a receiving corps featuring five capable threats.
On the other side, Clemson will counter with Trevor Lawrence (20 touchdowns, no interceptions in his last six games), Travis Etienne (1,500 yards on 8.24 a carry, 17 touchdowns) and a receiving corps that might be even more dangerous than Ohio State’s. Clemson doesn’t have a defensive lineman like Ohio State’s other Heisman finalist in Chase Young, but Ohio State doesn’t have a linebacker like Clemson’s Isaiah Simmons. The secondaries rank Nos. 1 and 2 in pass efficiency defense, as both limit opponents to around 50 percent completions at 5.3 yards per attempt, and both have claimed twice as many interceptions as touchdown passes allowed.
Add it all up and you’ve got the most anticipated semifinal game of the Playoff’s six-year history, and picking a winner feels like a true coin-flip. I’ve felt Ohio State is the best team in the country since September, so in my case it’s time to ride that take until the end.
THE PICK: Ohio State 30, Clemson 28
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