Morning Wrap: Clemson Destroys Oklahoma in Bowl Game

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Rumors of the ACC's weakness in football may be greatly exaggerated.

Either that or the Oklahoma Sooners and/or the Big 10 have a big problem.

The Clemson Tigers rolled to an early 40-0 lead and cruised home to a 40-6 Russell Athletic Bowl win over the reeling Oklahoma Sooners in front of 40,000 or so fans in a half-full stadium in Orlando, Florida.

QB Cole Stoudt had a career game, throwing for 319 yards and 3 TD's. He also ran for another score to lead the Tigers. Meanwhile, much hyped Oklahoma QB Trevor Knight threw for 103 yards and 3 interceptions. 

It wasn't pretty. And not to diminish the dominating performance by Clemson, the loss raised a ton of questions about longtime Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops.

Stoops, once considered a coaching darling or possible NFL head coach has struggled to keep the once competitive Sooners...well, um, competitive. The team was ranked as high as #3 or #4 in the preseason and finished the year 8-5 with a ton of question marks.

As for Clemson, while it wasn't a title winning year, the Tigers won 10 games for the 4th straight season under head coach Dabo Swinney.

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Morning Wrap: Clemson Runs Away From Wake Forest

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So it was an ACC Football game, on the 4-letter and probably didn't mean much in terms of the chase for the playoffs.

But it was a fun game.

Clemson rode QB Cole Stoudt's 282 yard, 3 Passing TD performance to a solid, if unspectacular 34-20 win over Wake Forest Thursday night in Winston-Salem.

The Tigers defense held Wake to 119 yards of offense including a grand total of 7 rushing yards.

Yes, seven.

The win moves Clemson to 7-2 overall,  6-1 in the ACC and keeps their ACC title game hopes alive, Wake drops to 2-7, 0-5 in the ACC.

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