The College Football Playoff will bring a clash between the No. 12 Clemson Tigers and No. 5 Texas Longhorns, which is set for 4:00 p.m. ET at Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. This will be Clemson's seventh appearance and Texas's second in the CFP.
Whoever wins this game, will have a chance of advancing to the semifinals as they will face Arizona State in the Peach Bowl for the quarterfinals. After Boise State, the Sun Devils have to be the second easiest matchup of the already qualified teams in the quarterfinal round.
The game will be available for listening nationwide on Sirius XM, with channel 84 having Texas's broadcast, channel 81 Clemson's and channel 80 a neutral ESPN broadcast.
The Longhorns are highly favored in this one, with the bookies making them 13-point favorites. ESPN's game predictor gives Clemson only a 19.5% chance of winning the game. The Tigers come with an overall record of 10-3 and the Longhorns 11-2 (including a loss to Georgia in the SEC championship).
How to watch Clemson vs. Texas? Streaming options for the opening CFP clash of 2024
TNT will broadcast the game, which you can stream through DirecTV Stream, YouTube TV, Sling TV and Hulu + Live TV. Another option is watching the game through the streaming app Max.
Dave Pasch will be the game's play-by-play announcer, Dusty Dvoracek the analyst and Taylor McGregor the sideline reporter.
Texas's Steve Sarkisian provides update on Quinn Ewers ahead of Clemson game
On Friday coach Steve Sarkisian provided an update on the health status of quarterback Quinn Ewers ahead of their CFP matchup on Saturday.
Here's what he said on "The Paul Finebaum Show":
"I think Quinn’s a heck of a player. You know, it’s been, I think, a difficult year for him, having the oblique injury early in the season,” Steve Sarkisian said. “He was playing great before that. Coming back from that and getting back to playing the way he’s capable of playing. Getting the ankle sprain, fighting through it.
“And I think there’s something to be said when your starting quarterback shows that toughness and that resiliency and that fighting through when it’s not always easy. … And what that means to his team. So I think it means a ton to our players knowing what Quinn’s been fighting through. He’s healthier today than he’s been in probably over a month," he added.
Ewers has suffered from injuries all season long, even missing a couple of weeks early in the year. Having a star backup like Arch Manning has only added to the pressure, but it seems that fans can expect to see Ewers under center on Saturday.
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