In those 238 seconds — a hair under four minutes — Clemson closed out Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, which served as the first College Football Playoff semifinal, Saturday evening at AT&T Stadium. What Clemson has is explosiveness and depth at every position, a claim Notre Dame cannot quite make. But his work on those two drives is what buckled Notre Dame. Rather, when Notre Dame failed to convert on its next possession, Clemson called a timeout. The problem for Notre Dame is that Lawrence’s suspension didn’t magically take defensive end Clelin Ferrell and defensive tackle Christian Wilkins out of action, too.

Source: Washington Post December 30, 2018 00:45 UTC