Trailing 14-0 with 7:42 left in the first half, Deon Cain went over and told his quarterback Deshaun Watson that if they could just get one big play they could get the offense going.
To that point, Clemson had just 72 total yards and five first downs.
“We started off slow, and I knew we needed a spark,” said Cain following Clemson’s 35-31 victory over Alabama, clinching the school’s first national championship since 1981.
It was Cain who provided that spark.
With Mike Williams on the sideline being evaluated for a concussion, the 6-foot-2, 218-pound speedster got his number called and he did not disappoint.