{"id":114316,"date":"2017-01-10T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114316"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:42:42","slug":"update-clemson-national-football-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114316","title":{"rendered":"Clemson national football champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-83735\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/football-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"football\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/football-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/football-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/football-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/football.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Deshaun Watson took the snap, rolled right and with one of the easiest throws he had to make all night, completed Clemson&#8217;s journey to the top of college football.<\/p>\n<p>A frantic fourth quarter and a championship rematch between Clemson and Alabama was decided with 1 second left on a 2-yard touchdown toss to Hunter Renfrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t hear the crowd,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;I just felt at peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watson and the Tigers dethroned the defending champs and became the first team to beat Nick Saban&#8217;s Alabama dynasty in a national title game, taking down the top-ranked Crimson Tide 35-31 Monday night in the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n<p>A 35-year title drought for Clemson is over. The Tigers are national champions for the first time since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>A year after Alabama won its fourth title under Saban with a classic 45-40 win in Arizona, Clemson (14-1) denied the Tide (14-1) an unprecedented fifth championship in eight seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Deshaun Watson took the snap, rolled right and with one of the easiest throws he had to make all night, completed Clemson&#8217;s journey to the top of college football. A frantic fourth quarter and a championship rematch between Clemson and Alabama was decided with 1 second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114327,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114316\/revisions\/114327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}