Disaster start to this season. South Florida and Pitt were both winnable games and we needed to win at least one, and maybe both, to have a shot at a decent record. Now we are looking at 1-3, because we aren't going to beat Clemson. This game, every unit played poorly in the first half, and every unit played pretty well in the second half, but that wasn't enough. This team continues to do just enough to lose. Its hard to win on the road but you can't be a good team unless you can win on the road.
I'm not going to bother analyzing this game too closely. Clemson's defensive front is simply too good. There is nothing really that we can do. They are vulnerable to a spread passing team that repeatedly threatens with downfield passing. But you need to be very good at that in order to trouble Clemson, and even then you might not. That isn't what we do and so of course we aren't very good at it. Even teams who are good at it often get beaten easily by this defense though.
Clemson's offense hasn't really impressed that much. I'm sure they'll have enough firepower to score on our defense, but hopefully we can get some stops. I just want something semi respectable like 31-10 maybe.
As always, let's go jackets. But I'm not excited about this one.
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