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Second Look: Grading Clemson's Cotton Bowl win over Notre Dame

No. 2 Clemson punched its ticket to the National Championship Game in style with a dominating win over No. 3 Notre Dame in AT&T Stadium Saturday.

Dabo Swinney's Tigers posted the biggest offensive effort yet on a top-5 Notre Dame defense and defensively gave up the least yards of any team to the Fighting Irish this season.

This season the ‘Second Look’ features the TigerNet staff grades for Clemson averaged as a group and offers some different perspectives on the action each week. Here’s our breakdown the Cotton Bowl:

Offense

That second quarter was a killer of leprechauns.