Here’s my theory and grant you I may be delusional. The Irish planned a very vanilla offensive game plan internationally. Odds are we were splitting with Clemson regardless and odds were we were making the playoffs regardless. So what is the incentive do we have for laying it all out and winning this game. We didn’t run any screen passes, abandoned the run early, very little misdirection. Call me crazy but I guarantee a better showing against Bama.
