CLOSE The College Football Playoff selection committee chose Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame to compete for the National Championship and the most recent Amway Coaches poll tells a similar story. USA TODAY One year later, here they are again — Clemson and Ohio State, Trevor Lawrence vs. Justin Fields, this time in a national semifinal at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan. 1. Last year, the two quarterbacks faced off in a Fiesta Bowl national semifinal won by Clemson and Lawrence, 29-23. This year, they enter the College Football Playoff after one of them — No. 2 Clemson (10-1) – played nearly twice as many games as the other — No. 3 Ohio State (6-0), leading to questions about whether the Buckeyes deserved a berth after their season was shortened by the pandemic. Playoff committee chair Gary Barta explained Sunday why they did. “Because they’re undefeated,”…
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