Clemson players ruled out of game

Three Clemson players, including starting defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence, will remain suspended for the College Football Playoff national championship game after supplemental samples of a failed drug test returned positive results for a banned muscle-growth supplement.

Lawrence, a junior, and reserves Zach Giella and

Braden Galloway sat out the Cotton Bowl while those additional tests, used to weed out false positive results, were pending. The secondranked Tigers trounced No. 3 Notre Dame 30-3 and will play top-ranked Alabama on Monday, for the national title.

Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich said the NCAA upheld the players’ suspensions but will allow the players to travel with the rest of the team to Santa Clara, Calif., for the national title game. Those bans could last up to a year, but Lawrence likely will enter the NFL draft. He is widely projected to be a first-round pick.

In other news: • Jim Margraff, the winningest football coach in Johns Hopkins University history, died Wednesday. He was 58. The Baltimore school said the former Johns Hopkins quarterback, who led his alma mater’s football program for 29 years, died at home. University officials did not release a cause of death, but the Baltimore Sun reported that Margraff had open-heart surgery to correct a congenital defect in 2005. With Margraff at the helm, Johns Hopkins posted a 221-89-3 record, won a Centennial Conference-record 14 league championships and made the NCAA playoffs 10 times.

• Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Mike

Yurcich was hired as quarterbacks coach and passing-game coordinator by new Ohio State coach

Ryan Day. Yurcich, 43, a native of suburban Cleveland, spent the last six years as offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State, where he helped the Cowboys average 38 points and 478 yards per game during his run.