January 9, 2025

The Clemson-Ohio State playoff semifinal is college football’s night of a thousand stars


By the time the Buckeyes (13-0) and the Tigers (13-0) finish up in nearby Glendale, their combined record will stand at 27-1, one team will wind up both great and sad, and everybody will be able to look forward to spending idle moments of ensuing years counting up how many NFL players romped on the last Saturday night of the 2010s around the indoor-yet-natural Tifway 419 grass. For a colossus with a stunning 11 all-Americans on the first, second and third Associated Press teams, the run-up has brimmed with raves, about the spectacle up ahead and about each other. “When you look at guys on both sides of the ball and both teams, you’ve got a lot of NFL players there that are going to be playing for a long time,” Ohio State Coach Ryan Day said. “So it’s going to be fun seeing those guys playing against each other…

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