I finally got a chance to rewatch the game and the book bashers are full of it. He didn’t play as bad as some here said. He missed Boykin on 3rd & 2 slant and a post was underthrown (another post was a little off but Boykin was clearly interfered w/ and got no call). Other than that, he was running for his life. The other BS takeaway was that Clemson called off the dogs in the 3rd qtr., that’s just not true at all. Starters played into the 4th and were pulled w/ about 7 minutes to go. The idea that Clemson took it easy in the 2nd half is 100% made up BS. Did Clemson have any 2nd stringers play before that? Sure, but there was no calling off the dogs. 4 long plays (etienne did nothing all game other than the long run). I don’t know why Gilman bit so hard on the 3rd & 14 but that dude played his ass off. 4 huge plays did us in on defense. On offense, book wasn’t as sharp as he’d been, which is understandable considering it was the best defense by far we’ve played, but our o-line could not protect, and our wrs dropped at least 3-4 balls & some questionable play calls didn’t help. It wasn’t nearly as bad as the score indicated though, imo. Now if they were breaking off huge chunks in the running game and methodically shredding our dbs, that’d be one thing, but we stuffed the run virtually all game sans the one long run, and they came up w/ two circus catches on good coverage and made a great call on the 3rd & 14 to make Gilman bite. The score says ass kicking but I think we’re closer than most think. Whether that plays out next season, who knows, we lose a lot of really good players, but if we play that game again, I think it’s a much closer result.