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So if we lose tomorrow we’ll find a way to win 9? I can live with that. Guess the ACCCG tiebreaker is gonna be wild.

I think it's a lot easier to get to 10 wins from 7 as a baseline than from 3 as a baseline, so I'd be happy with 2 years of 7 wins as *improvement* but not as the final destination. Sabotaging Johnson was one of many dumb things GT did in the 2010s for football, possibly the dumbest. Gailey...

We just need to play them on the road. They can pay us that way too! 🤦‍♂️

If your aspirations are to get back to a bowl as step 1 instead of to win 10 games the difference between “bad” and “worst in the country” is a big one. This ain’t a hard distinction. is your conclusion really “this GT defense has less talent than any team that slowed down BG or BC”?

Ball control offense blah blah blah. Thats why there are a bunch of stats designed to analyze beyond that, and the step change there after 2017 is still huge. https://www.bcftoys.com/2017-dfei - do we have dramatically less defensive talent than this defense?

The shine has certainly come off Deion some and they have some baffling losses too so I would love to not hear that particular discussion for a year or so. I’m not optimistic, though ;).

The defense hasn’t been great in a decade but it got worse in 2018 and then somehow managed to get even worse under Collins. Did the 2014-2018 teams have the talent to perform like the Gailey teams on D? Probably not. Did they have the talent to be better than these last few years of defense...

I don’t think anyone’s saying GT has Clemson’s talent but if you think the team has 85th-worst or “blown out by BG” talent/potential on the roster I think you’re missing a more likely alternative conclusion which is that the development and coaching of players was dog**** for four years and...

lining up for GT to beat UNC and Clemson and lose to UVA and Cuse

I think since the middle off the BG game he’s been forcing throws a lot more than the first three weeks because of a lack of confidence in the rest of the team. It’s a problem now because without those ints and missed throws the defense did enough the past two weeks. (They didn’t do GOOD per...

I thought the defense did well enough to make up for a bad day for the offense for ALMOST long enough. And then the defense broke down and the offense went from rough to disastrous. Overcoming adversity in a game like for all four quarters is a mindset and skill that the team hasn’t developed yet.

LA and Houston probably have the best food in the country (not fancy-shmancy-Manhattan-5-star-five-dining, but acroos-the-board, fight me!) so it's a shame the ACC isn't expanding to them then. ;)

I’ve only ever gone over the Golden Gate on a bike and it was on a sunny day but that was fine. There’s a crazy tall curved bridge in San Diego that was a trip, though.

LA = Louisiana, obviously

I suspect a lot of powerful folks in D1/FBS *enjoy* being able to get players paid in the open while being able to blame it on the courts instead of having to answer questions about why they reversed their own longstanding policy.

GT is just the long term example of how bad a really prolonged slide can be on national perception :/

Biggest question for me is if Clemson falls for a while do they start being seen like FSU or more like VT?

Every time I look at this play I think the defender on Rutherford could’ve broken up the catch if he let the ball come to him instead of breaking towards it while it was too high…

Momentum is fuzzy because it’s so easy to ignore counter examples. GT finally broke through and found the end zone on offense, then did it again and took the lead… then suddenly couldn’t move the ball and had to settle for a FG. Then got behind and couldn’t get the lead back… then suddenly...

I dunno, I don’t know that Clemson’s run was big enough/long enough/flashy enough to have lasting brand value in three or four years if they fall back just to “very good” status.