This is what you get when a committee pretends to have a playoff. The Clemson game is not a semifinal, because Ohio State did not do what it needed to do to be eligible for this game. The justification is that Ohio State is getting skunked, so far.
Sidebar: The solution for the unsportsmanlike conduct is for every team to bring angry grandmothers with big purses who get preferred spots along the sidelines. An unsportsmanlike penalty means the player has to run the gauntlet and the grandmas can take their best shots. If any of my grandchildren acted in an unsportsmanlike way and I found out, I would be on the phone to them the very next day. If it happened again, I would be on the next plane, and I would walk around with them and hold their hands, because they obviously didn't learn how to act when they were little. Grandma shaming at its finest.