Are you hearing yourself? If so....you'd probably agree. Kinda sound like a *****.
You need to rewatch the game then. We had no answer for their offense before Watson went down and our O did very little. We scored 2 defensive TDs on Ints off whoever then backup was.
This. We lose that game if Watson is healthy.
Could be in the 2014 game. Our only offense was on big plays and Snoddy getting hurt may have impacted that. But we couldn’t stop their offense so the question is whether we could have outscored them. Either way we weren’t as “good” as them at full strength which is what the original question was.
The 2009 team had 4 players leave early - Dwyer, Bay Bay, Burnett, and D Morgan.
Just think with Watson they were a better team. They were starting to hit their stride on offense and their defense held us to almost nothing in the first half. We hit on a few big runs and then wore them down late but feel it would have been much different if we had to face Watson all game. Not saying we weren’t very good just that imo they were better. Btw prior to the game they were ranked higher and iirc were favored
There are a few posters here that hand wave away any talk of academic roadblocks at Tech.
Why is it that GT fans reduced the significance of a victory when another team loses a player but when GT loses a player it’s supposed to have no impact?
As I recall he was hurt cutting upfield unchallenged in an open field. Same with Snoddy, different injury. But getting hit did not impact it.
He might have played a crappy game and it is hard to argue with two picks returned for TDs, the first of them thrown way too late, but Cliff Stoudt was the starting QB for most of that season, and there are those at Clemson who will argue that experience defined how Swinney rotated Lawrence into the lineup a lot earlier, even if his starter transferred out on him. So played badly, yes. Crappy backup, hardly. That was the game I began to look at Swinney & Clemson a bit differently. Despite losing a QB and a rivalry game he desperately wanted to win, he crossed the field after the game and searched the scrum until he found Thomas to congratulate him. Pretty impressive, I thought.