He wishes. Never believe he pulls for Bama. Didn't when he was coaching arena ball here and he married a Barner gal...
Wow. Some Clemson fans already believe this will be an easy victory over Bama
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I think it would be safe to Skip Clueless will also be picking Clemson. Eventually he will be right since he NEVER picks Bama.
You should have seen the plane I was on coming down from Newark this morning. There were a lot of Clemson fans on the plane.
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Bayless picked Bama over Washington, but fwiw he has already picked Clemson.
Exactly..I love hearing all the praise going to Clemson & how it's almost a certain Bama loss..We're in unchartered waters this far into "The Process" with folks slobbering all over another team other than Bama going into the NC Game..
That has to be lighting a fire under our Boy's backsides & will propel us into finally having a Complete Game when we dominate Clemson Monday Night with Sark controlling our offense..
I'm hoping for a game in which Clemson is overconfident and we come out on all cylinders and punch them right in the mouth and take control of the whole game similar to last year's game vs Georgia. 
I guess never was too strong a word then. LOL.
I did see where he really dogged Washington last week and said they were overrated.
I did see where he really dogged Washington last week and said they were overrated.
Simply put, I hope this game becomes a no-contest and those who picked Clemson feels bad about their prediction.
Every year this nonsense happens. It's an easy thing and it works like this:
make a ridiculously outrageous prediction and look like a genius if it comes true; if it doesn't then nobody remembers anyway.
Picking Clemson over Alabama hardly qualifies as 'ridiculously outrageous,' but I watched last year's game yesterday. You hear eye-popping numbers like his 405 yards passing and 550 total yards and 40 points.
The part you don't hear is:
a) 204 of those yards were in the final 9:45 of the game
b) MOST of those yards were accumulated in desperation when
c) he trailed by deficits of 11 and 12 points
d) against a defense that got no rest at all by virtue of Drake's TD lightning bolt*
e) Hunter Renfroe ate Minkah Fitzpatrick alive.....anyone think that's gonna happen again?
Most analyses are focusing on the fact the final deficit was five points...they ignore the fact that for most of the fourth quarter the Tide had a double digit lead.....because they're selling a game.
Here's another point I don't hear much about - I thought during the game last year that Derrick Henry looked tired. Starting with the LSU game, he had 159 carries (he had only 9 in the CSU game).....and got 36 more in the Clemson game. I thought he looked tired again when I viewed it yesterday.
Clemson is getting a LOT of attention over a 31-0 blowout - the press that ranked Ohio State so highly can't exactly come out and say, "Well, we overrated Ohio State" now, can they? The press coverage is an over-reaction to TWO GAMES played back to back last weekend. If Clemson's defense is really so awesome, is it not a fair question to ask why they gave up 43 points and lost to Pitt?
Saban said twice during the game last year that the defense was NOT playing well. Shaq Lawson also spent half the tiime lining up offsides and got away with it. (I'm sure Saban brought Clemson's tendency to line up in the neutral zone to the officials' attention prior to this game).
The key to the whole thing will be turnovers. We cannot give their talented QB a short field. And I'm sure Reuben will be shadowing him, too.
* - I realize the counter-argument will be "but Clemson's defense didn't get a rest because of the onsides kick." That's true - but which team had the better defense all things being equal?
make a ridiculously outrageous prediction and look like a genius if it comes true; if it doesn't then nobody remembers anyway.
Picking Clemson over Alabama hardly qualifies as 'ridiculously outrageous,' but I watched last year's game yesterday. You hear eye-popping numbers like his 405 yards passing and 550 total yards and 40 points.
The part you don't hear is:
a) 204 of those yards were in the final 9:45 of the game
b) MOST of those yards were accumulated in desperation when
c) he trailed by deficits of 11 and 12 points
d) against a defense that got no rest at all by virtue of Drake's TD lightning bolt*
e) Hunter Renfroe ate Minkah Fitzpatrick alive.....anyone think that's gonna happen again?
Most analyses are focusing on the fact the final deficit was five points...they ignore the fact that for most of the fourth quarter the Tide had a double digit lead.....because they're selling a game.
Here's another point I don't hear much about - I thought during the game last year that Derrick Henry looked tired. Starting with the LSU game, he had 159 carries (he had only 9 in the CSU game).....and got 36 more in the Clemson game. I thought he looked tired again when I viewed it yesterday.
Clemson is getting a LOT of attention over a 31-0 blowout - the press that ranked Ohio State so highly can't exactly come out and say, "Well, we overrated Ohio State" now, can they? The press coverage is an over-reaction to TWO GAMES played back to back last weekend. If Clemson's defense is really so awesome, is it not a fair question to ask why they gave up 43 points and lost to Pitt?
Saban said twice during the game last year that the defense was NOT playing well. Shaq Lawson also spent half the tiime lining up offsides and got away with it. (I'm sure Saban brought Clemson's tendency to line up in the neutral zone to the officials' attention prior to this game).
The key to the whole thing will be turnovers. We cannot give their talented QB a short field. And I'm sure Reuben will be shadowing him, too.
* - I realize the counter-argument will be "but Clemson's defense didn't get a rest because of the onsides kick." That's true - but which team had the better defense all things being equal?
This reminds me of the SEC Championship against UGA. Four points and five yards short didn't take into account that a (ridiculously) missed pass interference call in Georgia territory that, at worst, would have given us a chip shot field goal, or even a touchdown, instead of a long field goal that gets blocked and returned for a touchdown.
A shutout is a big deal but it took some luck as well as good defense for Clemson to accomplish this. This is normally the case for shutouts..
OSU missed a couple of field goals and had the ball in scoring position a couple of other times against Clemson. Washington only crossed into Bama's side of the field two times.
OSU missed a couple of field goals and had the ball in scoring position a couple of other times against Clemson. Washington only crossed into Bama's side of the field two times.
More similar to Clemson, the UGA "5yds short" fails to account for the fact that we were once again trading yardage for time off the clock. Or that the defense had just made what they thought was a game winning pick and came back on the field a little flat footed. Or even that Ragland tipped that last pass, causing it to fall short and the WR to fall down catching it.
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If Ohio State didn't have to punt at 4th and goal, I don't care about their shutout.
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Lost in all the hub-bub is yet another narrative......we were told that with all that extra time, it would (somehow) benefit Chris Petersen. If that narrative is presumably true, why is our 17-point win so dissed? Despite the burden of the extra time, we won.
Oh btw.....
1) Clemson only held two of the six top 50 offenses they faced below their average ppg (Ohio St, Auburn)
2) Those two games also just happened to be the opener they had eight months to get ready for and the bowl game they had a month to get ready for
3) There's no extra time this time
4) Our team last year is different, theirs is mostly the same.
Oh btw.....
1) Clemson only held two of the six top 50 offenses they faced below their average ppg (Ohio St, Auburn)
2) Those two games also just happened to be the opener they had eight months to get ready for and the bowl game they had a month to get ready for
3) There's no extra time this time
4) Our team last year is different, theirs is mostly the same.
Me too! I would rather it be on a Saturday night to have a day to recuperate.
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