I hope not...but I think this will play a larger role than most of us Clemson fans want to admit.
We are going to beat Clemson
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I hope not...but I think this will play a larger role than most of us Clemson fans want to admit.
doubting our Gamecocks..and you want to be my latex salesman?
if Roper is saving the playbook for the last game of the season rather than trying to win the division, then he probably need to go
I think it could. Our receiving core is talented enough to cause some problems, especially if your guys aren't at 100%
true there is no excuse, but it happens every year...a top team get upset...or unexpectedly gets blown out...FCS teams beating a FBS. No matter the competition, it is tough for 18-19 year olds to play their best week in and week out and go undefeated for 12 games.
It will be closer than last year. That's all I can predict at this point. Last year, if they played their worst game and we played our best, we still wouldn't beat them. This year, if we play our best game and they play their worst (or 2nd worst), we can win. But I'm not holding my breath for that.
By "he", I guess you mean Muschamp since you wouldn't hold Roper responsible if he was order to limit the playbook, would you? But why would you fire a coach who's 7-3?
I do not think they will score 38 points. Also a 24 point victory is unlikely. Some of the team may have moved on from that 49 point defeat last season but Coach Muschamp has not forgot what happened.
Disagree. Clemson won't score more than 24 on us.
he isnt a latex salesman, he is an architect.........
I thought he was a marine biologist....the sea was angry that day my friends......
They won't need to score much if we can't score. Their defense is just as good, if not better than Georgia's. They have issues in the secondary but we have a QB whose accuracy is spotty at times.
Think dabo is 4 and 5 against Carolina, interneting is hard isn’t it Einstein.
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Wrong. Since Dabo has been Clemson's head coach...
South Carolina won 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Clemson won 2014, 2015, 2016
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my math shows 3-5 for Dabo against the Gamecocks.
was referring to Roper...but either way, you don't hold back the playbook all season for the last game of the year.
Clemmy won't get 31 on Carolina in Williams-Brice....Tigger fans never cease to amaze me.
GO COCKS!
Absolutely correct, plus it was a Friday night game. Hell, I forgot it was even being played.....Clem was on snooze that game and their qb got hurt. Clem will have a completely different mindset for our game.
How about for a more comparable situation: 2015, playing at home your defense was better, your offense was better; our offense worse, our defense worse outcome was 37-32. By your logic: 42-5 Gamecocks, rough day for Clemson but the safety will make sports center highlights if that makes you feel better.
I don't think the playbook has been held back but there is no doubt the staff has chosen to protect Bentley the entire season and allow him what, 4-5 keepers on the read option all season? We have to give the staff credit that Bentley has stayed healthy.
So if someone says, "open up the playbook" against Clem the only thing I think we might see different is more Bentley keepers in the read option. It will only take 3-4 Bentley keepers in the Clem game to make Roper's offense look like an average offense instead of a 100+ ranked offense. I hope we see it. I think it's the only chance we have to score more than 13 on Clem.
Agreed. Jake is not very big. I'm sure the coaching staff is worried about him taking hits with no proven backup quarterback. We were clearly not going to call his number against UGA, even though it worked for us the previous week against Vandy and it worked last week against Florida. I don't expect he'll run it against Wofford, unless we're in a desperate situation. However, like you suggest, it'll be on the table against Clemson.
Well, since you brought it up, yeah. The last time y'all came to WB, we came within a TD of flushing your playoff run down the crapper. And THAT was a 3-8 team whose coach had quit mid-season and had just lost to The Citadel. AND you still had Watson and, whatshisname (Boulware? Whatever). So that alone would make me feel ok about this game, especially after y'all getting pushed by State & FSU the past 2 weeks.
Exactly. Playing at home in front of a crazy crowd is a huge advantage. If this were at Clemson I wouldn't think we have a shot. The only comparable environment for them this year was the VT game but WB will be louder and also VT was overrated.
Sometimes I like to play pretend too. When you let your imagination take control anything is possible.
How do you ambush a top 3 ranked team? You just out play and out coach them that's not an ambush that's just preparation.
Nah interim tag, that one was still on Tommy
They throw the kitchen sink at clemson. Jake is gonna run most def. Muschamp knows the fan base could care less about a bowl loss with no Jake than losing to Clemson without doing everything possible to win.
First 2 series forget whistle and tackle their QB. Set da tone
Did you feel like Clemson was ever actually in trouble that game? Anytime they needed to score, or change momentum, or take the crowd out of the game...they did. SC scored a cheap TD with a second on the clock to close the margin from 12 to 5, so no...not really within a TD of beating Clemson, since that would have required another possession. That was the same kind of lackadaisical effort Clemson took to Syracuse, NY this year. Sometimes, it bites you in the ass.
Well tell your boys to bring it then.. Cause we are and you are not anywhere near the same team without Watson. F clemson
Some people evidently don't understand the concept of the ambush as it relates to athletic contests. The term ambush derives from the difference between what one expects to happen and what actually happens. UPC's expectation of a routine outing ending in decisive victory rather than being waylaid by a well-prepared and motivated opponent constituted an ambush from the UPC point of view.
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