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The Clemson Tigers were the hope of the ACC this year, especially after Virginia Tech coughed up an L to East Carolina in Charlotte earlier today.
Yes, I understand that Wake Forest and *shudder* North Carolina are supposed to finish with good records and have dangerous teams (note that Carolina only beat McNeese St. by a touchdown). But still, Clemson, Tommy Bowden, Lightning, Thunder, Hope.
Or, at the very least, I think we all believed that maybe Tommy could take his team deep enough into the season with a high enough rank that the BCS berth they earned vis a vis the ACC title would seem legitimate. Okay, okay, fine. We knew that Clemson wouldn't be flat out embarrassed by Nick Saban and Alabama in Atlanta during week one.
Or, perhaps I'm delusional. Because Clemson got destroyed 34-10 by the Tide on Saturday night, in the ACC's third consecutive national television debacle of the first weekend of the college football season.
The score should have been worse than it was, especially considering 'Bama settled for three field goals deep inside Tiger territory, and Clemson's lone TD came off a C.J. Spiller kickoff return to open the second half.
Yes, Alabama is much, much, better than anyone could have thought -- I think. Because I'm not totally ready to say that Clemson is much, much, much-much-much worse than anyone could have possibly imagined. But when you have the best running back tandem in the entire country in Spiller and James Davis, and they somehow manage to only put together 20 total rushing yards, well, something is wrong.
Which could be the fact that they only attempted eight rushes. Which speaks volumes about what type of coach they have running the show down in Death Valley; one who, had his father not allegedly punted a game his way a few years ago, might still be looking for a job.
Granted, Clemson didn't do anything with any of their rushing attempts, but, it seemed from the get-go (and I noted this in the evening football chat) that Bowden would abandon the obvious gameplan and attempt to air it out, like some rookie NCAA '09 player. Which, incidentally, is exactly what happened.
Again, not to take away from the Tide -- John Parker Wilson looked vastly matured, the 'Bama defense was absolutely stifling, and Mark Ingram and Glen Coffee might have averaged about 19.2 yards per carry, or at least it felt like it. But there was something significantly missing from Clemson as a whole. And whether or not you believe in intangibles, you certainly have to believe in "coaching", and the Tigers lacked it Saturday night.
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