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Clemson D makes me long for Sundays and watching the much better Panther defense lol Cade Klubnik the best individual performance by anyone thus far in the CFP factoring in the D and handicaps. A shame Clemson wasted that. Oh well, they brought it back to a 7 point game at one point in the 4th. More entertaining than anything else thus far.

Entire defense has cost them….but he is right there with the run D. Just horrible defense. Cade got 300+ 3 TDs on them. That easily should be good enough QB performance to beat Texas. Fire that DC tonight. He has never been good. A good DC can fix that run D with ease with the bodies at Clemson. Hell a decent one can.

Horrible playcalling at the 1 there.

Pretty sure none of those decisions got anything to do with the post talking about Cade’s performance vs Texas (with no rush game to aid him).

And just like that, Clemson not being able to play the run as good as even a middle school team can lol…. props to Cade Klubnik. He should return next year. Think he has proven to be good enough. Bad D performance likely is going to overshadow how good a game he has played today.

Clemson might not belong….but Cade Klubnik taking it to Texas like no other QB on the year though. that’s 3 TDs on the day. Texas allowed 4 all season. 7 point game.

Texas getting favorite calls to ensure nothing funky can happen lol. I miss those days lol.

Bro, told you all year Clemson was likely the best ACC team (they were) yet not built to run with the top of college football. They won the ACC. me picking them to win today is just being a fan. Otherwise, why watch if no belief/hope in these moments. I’ve long said what Clemson was and wasn’t We literally are playing a WR at RB tonight lol because of how banged up the backfield is…yet Cade got 2 TDs. Texas allowed 4 all year. That’s not bad. Clemson ain’t got the D this year.

My halftime thoughts… nearly impossible to run good O vs a tough Texas D without a functional RB to insert. You end up with no run game and the on the other end lose a body in pass protection because you can’t ask a random WR to pass pro. Given that handicap vs that D, Cade is playing okay. Clemson got screwed on that pick 6. 21-14 alters the momentum and feel of that game. Head in front and blew up his front shoulder. Whoever is the fav isn’t getting that called on them. all that said, Clemson lost the ability to tackle and play basic run D weeks ago. Really miss Venables in these games. They got the bodies to be way better on D than they are. It’s the D coach. Time for change at DC next year. The calls for that will be loud. A reminder to SC fans that use that Clemson game they barely won because Sellers broke 198 tackles…..as they boast about how good they would do in the playoffs….Clemson just sucks at tackling.

Yeah, I never really understood how they cherry picked these opening games to give them homefield advantage given that’s not what college football does anywhere else in title, bowl, playoff games.

I’ll be back later to take my lumps or gloat. We getting situated over here.

and those games were neutral sites too. The deck/format is intentionally slanted to reward and favor the higher seeds right now.

Disagree really. The #4 and #3 team routinely got their doors blown off in the 4 team bracket. In reality Penn St would have been in under the 4 team system….and yet they are playing a team that is only squeaked into the top 10 in one poll. Blowouts are going to happen. Hell one the biggest blowouts in CFP history was what everyone was appointing as the greatest team in college football history and were going to be appointed such when they won the title game….but they got smashed in it and everyone pretends that talk never happened. Sports. Bad and good days happen. Therefore bad games happen.

See there you go again, just getting whacky. I mean, outside of some anomaly season….we know that just isn’t true. non-SEC teams have 4 of the 10 nattys in the CFP era. we know the 6th best team in the SEC hasn’t been better than the top of other conferences during this era. Almost 50% of the time the top of the SEC didn’t finish on top. SEC is the best conference. But that’s why the SEC gets hate because they often get stupid with it….and you aren’t even a SEC guy. At least not today.

Bold take that 12 teams wouldn’t be worthy of competing for a natty when we could never find 4 worthy of such. I think every has always acknowledged that

1 doesn’t play 12. You do play in games with low seed vs low seed. And you give byes to the top 4 teams. You don’t award byes to conference champs. So Texas and Penn get byes.

I think they should just rank them 1-12. No byes for champs . And then you let the lower seeds basically have play in games. SMU and Indiana and the likes really should be playing Boise State, ASU, Clemson, etc.

Well also, none of these teams not showing up thus far were even conference champs. I’m also not sure the BIG and SEC should be talked about so comparably either though. There is the SEC and 4 weaker power 5s of different varieties

Well that’s true as well, most of that thrashing were by teams that played for the natty and often won it. Now maybe you could argue Notre Dame is going to handle teams but I don’t think this Penn St team is. SMU doesn’t have the OL to play in these games nor the QB.

I think people, not saying here, suddenly have forgotten how routinely teams got smashed in the 4 team format though

Well, SMU’s QB ain’t ready for this stage. Not sure Penn St actually looks that impressive either yet. They have done nothing this game but return 2 balls thrown directly to defenders thus far. Time to find something to do until 4

Turnover was brutal. SMU has done a good job vs the Penn State O. SMU should pick up the tempo. That’s what makes them tough. Think they could get Penn St downfield

that SMU O went real fast from threatening to…oof

SMU had them. That’s brutal.