Whicker: Clemson demonstrates that it’s tough to knock out the champ

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Somehow we forgot the team that has forgotten how to lose.
Somehow we forgot, in basically a month’s time, that Trevor Lawrence was the heavy preseason Heisman Trophy favorite, and that Clemson had won two of the previous three College Football Playoff championships, and that regardless of the Ohio State light show and the LSU passing jamboree, there was a big orange speed bump waiting for anyone who wanted to get to New Orleans.
The intelligentsia tuned out the Tig