It was a continuation of Sermon’s impressive performance in the Big Ten championship game when he rushed for an Ohio State single game school record of 331 yards on 29 carries and two touchdowns in the Buckeyes 22-10 victory against Northwestern. Ohio State running back Trey Sermon, a transfer from Oklahoma, rushed for 191 yards and one touchdown and also caught four passes for 61 yards. Now we have an opportunity to go win the whole game and maybe write one of the best stories ever in college football history.”įields left nothing to chance this time. And who would have imagined the journey to come back to right here to play Clemson again in the same (semifinal) game. They wanted a chance to come back and play. “So many people doubted us going into this game. “Clemson is a championship team so to come out here and play the way we did against them was huge,” Day said. Ohio State Coach Ryan Day said, considering what the team went through this season with the COVID-19 pandemic, it was as sweet a victory as could possibly be. In last year’s semifinal game against Clemson (10-2), Fields threw an interception in the end zone in the game’s final minute that sealed the Tigers’ come-from-behind 29-23 victory. It was sweet revenge for Fields, named the Offensive Player of the Game, and the entire Ohio State team.

The victory sends the Buckeyes (7-0) into the CFP National Championship game against top seed Alabama in Miami on Jan. And he couldn’t have picked a better time.įields, the Buckeyes junior quarterback from Kennesaw, Georgia, had 427 yards passing and rushing and threw for an Allstate Sugar Bowl record six touchdown passes leading third seed Ohio State to a convincing 49-28 victory against second seed Clemson in the College Football Playoff semifinals Friday night (Jan. Justin Fields penned a redemption story that will long be talked about in prestigious Ohio State football lore. Justin Fields set a Sugar Bowl record with six touchdown passes in the Playoff Semifinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl against the Clemson Tigers.

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