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Disappointing bowl game with D focused on NFL against top 10 team unfairly tarnished what was a big year waking up the offense as the year went on.

I hate this excuse. the D played hard, Clemson just made timely some plays. Boyd was a good college QB, Hopkins a good WR on whatever level, and they had some talent on both sides of the ball. not to mention they ran 100 plays, our "woken-up" offense only got off like 50-55. with all that, the D bent but never really broke.

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Posted by Tiger Voodoo

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Posted on 9/24/14 at 10:25 pm to ATLTiger

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hate this excuse. the D played hard, Clemson just made timely some plays. Boyd was a good college QB, Hopkins a good WR on whatever level, and they had some talent on both sides of the ball.

Good points, and I guess I wasn't clear because it was a long post and was trying to keep each year brief.

FTR, I've never criticized the loss to Clemson and have defended the team in multiple threads about it against those that pretend a loss to a very good Clemson team was some kind of embarassment.

As I pointed out in my post, they were a top 10 team, and there was no shame in losing that game on a last second FG after giving up a 4th and 16 conversion.

My comment about the D had more to do with the end of the season after the Bama game, when the D seemed to be a little distracted with NFL decisions against MSU, OM, and Ark.

The team looked well motivated inthe bowl imo, with the D getting the big turnover early, but the improved O at the end of the year didn't click as well against a fired up Clemson D to atone for their bowl embarrassment in 2011.

I didn't mean it as an excuse for the bowl loss, and see that it could have been misinterpreted.