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Clemson Football HUMILIATED & EXPOSED | Tigers MUST CHANGE Everything | Dabo Swinney | LSU v Clemson · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: There's still time left on the clock in Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say that up front because normally
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  Speaker 1: that matters. Normally I would wait. I would let a
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  Speaker 1: game breathe for a moment. I would read a few
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  Speaker 1: recaps to make sure that nothing in my notes was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I would want to get final stat totals and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that I could highlight specific things, but not tonight
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  Speaker 1: because with 12 minutes to go, LSU is up 44
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  Speaker 1: to three and the final score literally does not matter anymore.
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  Speaker 1: the heck happened to Clemson? We'll set the table because
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  Speaker 1: I do think context matters here. This It wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: trap game. This wasn't a bad matchup on paper. Clemson
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  Speaker 1: came into Death Valley, the LSU version of it, and
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  Speaker 1: the No. 11 team in the country was walking into
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's first game as a head coach. This was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a measuring stick. Instead, it turned into
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  Speaker 1: an autopsy. It started early, and honestly, it started well.
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  Speaker 1: On LSU's second play from scrimmage, Sam Leavitt threw an interception,
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  Speaker 1: and Clemson took over deep in LSU territory. Clemson led first,
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  Speaker 1: 3-0 score. That's about the last thing that went right
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  Speaker 1: all night. Because a few drives later, Christopher Vazina threw
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  Speaker 1: a pass that should have never left his hand. LSU's
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Ross stepped in front of it, and he took
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  Speaker 1: it back 30 yards the other way for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: And just like that, it was 17-3 LSU in the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter. Here's the thing about that play. It was
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  Speaker 1: not a fluke. Unfortunately for the Tigers from South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: it was a preview. From there, LSU did what dominant
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  Speaker 1: teams do. They overmatched Clemson. They didn't need trick plays.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't need a miracle. They just ran the football
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  Speaker 1: down your throat. Sam Leavitt, the Arizona State transfer everybody
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see under center for Kiffin, didn't even need
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  Speaker 1: his arm to do the damage tonight. 11 carries. He
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  Speaker 1: had 100 yards, two touchdowns on the ground. He had
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  Speaker 1: an 8-yard scramble and a 13-yard sidestep into the end
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  Speaker 1: zone that had Tiger Stadium shaking. Deion Jones was right
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  Speaker 1: there with him, 81 yards at the time I'm recording
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  Speaker 1: this and a score of his own. Meanwhile, Clemson's offense
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  Speaker 1: was doing this, minus two rushing yards, 53 total yards,
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  Speaker 1: two rushing yards at one stretch of the game. Not 200,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking two. By halftime, LSU led 31-3, and it
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  Speaker 1: genuinely could have been worse. Kiffin said so himself. He
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  Speaker 1: told ESPN's Holly Rowe at the break that his team
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  Speaker 1: should have been up 38-0 if not for that mistake
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  Speaker 1: in the first quarter on the first drive. Let that
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  Speaker 1: sink in for a second. The winning coach was mad
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  Speaker 1: that his team wasn't winning by more. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: in typical Lane Kiffin fashion, he dropped the line that
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  Speaker 1: everyone will repeat. Imagine if we had pro players. That's
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  Speaker 1: not just a coach that's talking a little smack. That's
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  Speaker 1: a coach who watched his defense completely erase an opposing
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  Speaker 1: offense from for 30 straight minutes and decided, hey, that
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  Speaker 1: score still isn't disrespectful enough. So what did Dabo do?
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  Speaker 1: He made the move you make when there's nothing left
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  Speaker 1: to lose. Late in the second quarter, Christopher Vazina, the
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  Speaker 1: guy who won the starting job in fall camp, the
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  Speaker 1: guy that Sweeney praised for his steadiness, got pulled. In
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  Speaker 1: comes Tate Reynolds. True freshman, never taken a college snap
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  Speaker 1: in his life. His first offensive series as Clemson's quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: he completed a seven-yard pass, and he got sacked for
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  Speaker 1: a loss on third down punt. Welcome to Death Valley.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what tells you how bad things had gotten.
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  Speaker 1: Sweeney didn't hedge it at all at halftime. Reporters asked
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  Speaker 1: if he would keep Reynolds in in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: He said probably so. Not we'll evaluate. We'll see how
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  Speaker 1: Chris bounces back. Probably. Probably. When your head coach can't
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  Speaker 1: commit to bringing the guy back who won the job
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  Speaker 1: in August, you already know what kind of night it's been.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't get much better after halftime. It got worse.
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  Speaker 1: LSU came out of the locker room and just kept
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  Speaker 1: adding to it. Levitt found Winston Watkins Jr. open wide
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  Speaker 1: open for another score through the air. Because at some point,
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  Speaker 1: a defense that's already broken mentally starts breaking down physically too.
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  Speaker 1: And it never stopped. By the time we're recording this,
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  Speaker 1: LSU's up 44-3, and I don't even want to turn
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  Speaker 1: around and look at it again. 44-3 against a team
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  Speaker 1: that's breaking in a first-year head coach in a game
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  Speaker 1: that's his very first game in that stadium. That's not
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  Speaker 1: a loss, man. That is a message. I know you
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  Speaker 1: for their support. So the real question here is not
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  Speaker 1: who wins the game. We clearly have known that since
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  Speaker 1: probably the first quarter, maybe second quarter if you're being generous.
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  Speaker 1: The real question is what this means for Clemson going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Because this isn't just about one bad Saturday. This is
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  Speaker 1: a program that spent the last year trying to convince
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  Speaker 1: everyone that it's still Clemson. It's still the same operation
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  Speaker 1: that won two national titles. It's still a team that
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  Speaker 1: belongs in the sports top tier. And every time that
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  Speaker 1: argument starts to build a little momentum, something like this happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's an offensive line that can't create a rushing lane.
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  Speaker 1: It's a quarterback competition that apparently isn't as settled as
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  Speaker 1: fall camp made it sound. It's a defense that couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get a single stop against an offense that hadn't played
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  Speaker 1: a real game together yet. That's not one flaw. That's
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  Speaker 1: a program wide problem showing up all at once on
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  Speaker 1: national TV in week one. And look, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Every fan base wants to point to the 12 minutes
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  Speaker 1: on the clock and say, we don't know how bad
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  Speaker 1: this will actually be. We do know, man. It's 44-3.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to look at it again. Maybe Clemson
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  Speaker 1: scores a couple times in garbage time and makes the
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  Speaker 1: score look slightly less brutal. It won't change what we
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  Speaker 1: all watched. It won't change the quarterback change. It won't
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  Speaker 1: ease Kiffin's line about pro players. It won't erase the
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  Speaker 1: minus two yards rushing in the first half against a
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  Speaker 1: team breaking in a brand new coaching staff. Final scores
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  Speaker 1: get forgotten, but the film does not. So where does
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  Speaker 1: Clemson go from here? Does Reynolds keep the job next week?
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  Speaker 1: Does Vazina get a real chance to respond, or is
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  Speaker 1: the moment for the competition actually flipped for good? And
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  Speaker 1: bigger than either quarterback, can this offensive line hold up
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  Speaker 1: against literally anybody on the schedule if it couldn't move
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  Speaker 1: the ball at all tonight? LSU's a good team, man.
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  Speaker 1: I think they show that they can compete for the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs this year. But you've got more teams on the
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  Speaker 1: schedule that are going to do the same exact thing.
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  Speaker 1: There are real questions that Clemson has to answer starting
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. Because right now, with the clock still running
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  Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge, the only thing that's actually finished is
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  Speaker 1: the illusion that this team was ever ready for the moment.
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  Speaker 1: They were not. And we'll see if Dabo can fix that.
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  Speaker 1: But tonight, Clemson didn't just lose a game. They got
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  Speaker 1: absolutely exposed on national television for the entire country to see. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they'll come back and they'll win next week. There's no
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  Speaker 1: doubt in my mind. They'll come out and they'll probably
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  Speaker 1: look great against Georgia Southern. Well, I tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: that North Carolina game ain't looking as easy as we
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  Speaker 1: might have thought it was after watching them win in Dublin.
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  Speaker 1: That game at Cal... Ain't looking very good based on
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  Speaker 1: what I'm watching JKS do right now against UCLA. That
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  Speaker 1: game at home against Miami, buddy, buckle up because they
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  Speaker 1: got trenches too. Virginia Tech, Florida State on the road,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Duke. I don't think there's a
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  Speaker 1: game on here that you could say that's a sure
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  Speaker 1: win outside of maybe Charleston Southern and Georgia Southern. Some
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  Speaker 1: things have to get figured out at Clemson, and they
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  Speaker 1: have to get figured out quickly. Or, man, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Dabo fan. I make no bones about that. I liked
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  Speaker 1: what he said about the pro players this week. I
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  Speaker 1: liked what he said about the Forelli situation. I like
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  Speaker 1: what he stands for. I like the way he lives
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  Speaker 1: his life. I like his character. I like all that.
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  Speaker 1: I've had several Clemson guys on the show. I've talked
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  Speaker 1: with them about it. I'm a Dabo fan. But if
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  Speaker 1: things don't fix themselves really, really quickly... Ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: be much more dabble left in Clemson. I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you that they will not take getting embarrassed like this.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can bounce back 2024. They got embarrassed to
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  Speaker 1: open up a season and they bounced back, but buddy,
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  Speaker 1: you better figure it out real quick. This one feels
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different. This one wasn't a game for
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  Speaker 1: any time at all. That one against Georgia was for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. This one wasn't, this was a different energy.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen Clemson look this defeated before. 2013 maybe.
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  Speaker 1: And that night, I think he just got stunned. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that anybody saw this coming and maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem. I know you Clemson fans are
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  Speaker 1: not happy. I know you're not in a good mood.
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  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed for you. I don't cheer for the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the ACC. I wanted to see you
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  Speaker 1: go in and be competitive tonight. I wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: that 10 point spread be about where this game was
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  Speaker 1: at its worst. It's, That spread was covered in about
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  Speaker 1: 10 minutes tonight. And even though it was a weather
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  Speaker 1: delay and everything else, this game was over before it started.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know your thoughts down in the comments. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're mad. Don't rage at me, man. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. But Dabo's got a lot to figure out.
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