CLEMSON, S.C. — In the 20 or so miles between Kennesaw and Cartersville, the hometowns of the opposing quarterbacks in the Dec. 28 Fiesta Bowl, there is a choice to be made. In that borderland, do you tilt toward the hotshot quarterback from Cobb — Ohio State’s Justin Fields — or the one from Bartow — Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence? There’s a powerful local pull to both sides of this big college football playoff semifinal, an added attraction to what figures to be an already spell-binding game. Asked this week his opinion on how these neighboring precincts might lean, Lawrence came up with an entirely different option: “Well, there are a lot of Georgia fans there,” he said with a knowing smile. But the Bulldogs, as has been noted at length, have been eliminated from this discussion. » STEVE HUMMER: Oh, look, Clemson’s good again Yes, even minus Jake Fromm, these playoffs are all about…
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