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Was that Clemson team suppose to be special?

Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:32 am
Posted by poncho villa
DALLAS
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Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:32 am
I mean they were at 29? win streak and other than them pinning us inside the 5 (which gave them multiple + field position possessions) and a reverse “trick play” they didn’t do jack shite.

TL might be a great QB in the NFL but that dude was rattled all game and he beat Bamas arse last year. Etienne was good but never broke out like he did against everyone else. Should have lost to OSU.

Not saying these teams would have beat Clemson but UGA UF and Bama scared me more than them.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
30055 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:35 am to
Cmon everyone.

Thst clemson Team was, and still is, special.

Tells you all you need to know about this LSU team that was even more special.


Best team of all time beat this onnce-in-a-generation quarter back. Beat the other one in tuna as well.



Yes. Clemson is special. We pasted 42 on them.
Posted by Jugular Joe
Member since Jan 2020
4334 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:35 am to
Give LSU all the credit in the world.

That was a team trying to make history with perfect seasons back to back.

I don't think we should be downplaying Clemson at this point.

We beat a great team.
Posted by poncho villa
DALLAS
Member since Jul 2010
17685 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:36 am to
We did against them what we did against everyone else. Doesn’t seem that special to me. And it could have been worse
Posted by Mohican
Member since Nov 2012
6179 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:37 am to
They were the 2nd best team. They beat OSU.

I do think they have been a little overhyped due to the Bama beat down last year.
Posted by FulshearTiger
Member since Jul 2015
5274 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:40 am to
Why do some of yall idiots want to put down the teams that we beat?

Those teams being highly ranked and considered good teams is exactly what has us in the conversation for best college football season of all time.

Never understood the need to say a team sucks after you beat them.
Posted by Flyingtiger82
BFE
Member since Oct 2019
1000 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:42 am to
Auburn played us a better game, but Clemson was definitely more competitive than OU or UGA imo.

Three hardest teams we faced
1. Auburn
2. Clemson
3. Alabama
4. Not sure maybe Texas? Ole Miss? UForfeit?
Posted by 225Tyga
Member since Oct 2013
15779 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:43 am to
Yeah they have a first round QB, RB and two first round receivers.

Posted by KamaCausey_LSU
Member since Apr 2013
14477 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:55 am to
Clemson's offense was special. The defense was young, especially on the line due to early departures. Outside of Simmons (and I guess their best CB who got torched in the Championship) they really didn't have many playmakers on defense.
Posted by atltiger6487
Member since May 2011
18131 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:58 am to
Clemson is indeed a special, elite team. We just had a generationally spectacular offense, and our D stepped up after the 1st quarter.

Why are we denigrating Clemson? They're great. We were just greater.
Posted by Jugular Joe
Member since Jan 2020
4334 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 8:59 am to
quote:

Three hardest teams we faced
1. Auburn
2. Clemson
3. Alabama


But where you ever in fear of losing the Auburn game? No, not with that putrid offense. That game was more frustrating than anything, with all the points we left out on that field.

I thought Florida played us the toughest. The only team to hold a second half lead against us. And with under 8 minutes to go they were in the redzone trying to tie the game. Nobody else can say that.

Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
30055 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:03 am to
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But where you ever in fear of losing the Auburn game? No, not with that putrid offense.


You don’t know shite.


Plenty of 4 point and 7 point swings.

You only saw the box score and didn’t watch the first half.
This post was edited on 1/31/20 at 9:27 am
Posted by WhoDatNC
NC
Member since Dec 2013
11693 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:04 am to
No. They were underdog remember?
Posted by redfish99
B.R.
Member since Aug 2007
16410 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:05 am to
Glad we played them and not OSU . They were finesse personified and we exposed them.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89480 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:05 am to
quote:

Was that Clemson team suppose to be special?


That was the best team outside the SEC the past 2 years, without question.

quote:

UGA UF and Bama scared me more than them.


Bama with a healthy Tua would have beaten Clemson in 2019 and UGA, UF and, yes, Auburn would have given them hell.

Bama was the best team we played in 2019 and after we got up in the 2nd Quarter, they never had the ball with a chance to take the lead despite the final score.

LSU 2019 is the greatest college football team of all time.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
29982 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:07 am to
I really don't get the minimizing of teams that LSU beat.
As for Clemson, tell me which teams were had a 10 point lead on LSU at any point in any game this year?

Either LSU had a great season and beat several really good to great teams or all that is overblown because all those teams were really just overrated pieces of crap teams.

Which is it tRant?
Posted by msizzle08
Member since Dec 2019
650 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:08 am to
Based on Joel Klatt Ohio St was the real "special" team. He said Ohio St was best team he has seen and years and that they would beat clemson 7/10 times. And this was said after Clemson beat them lol. But 29-0 is special and can't take that away.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171035 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:10 am to
You're diminishing LSU's accomplishments by shitting on teams they beat.

Clemson was very good. Not as good defensively as last year, but still very good.

LSU was just that much better.
Posted by BlindTiger7
Houston
Member since Sep 2016
2679 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:16 am to
quote:


Was that Clemson team suppose to be special?


Were they good? yes.
Special? Tough to say when you don't play anyone all season. Simmons was their biggest play maker IMO

This LSU team was a once in a generation team

With that said, it would have been nice to beat them by 24
Posted by tubucoco
las vegas, nevada
Member since Oct 2007
32994 posts
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:16 am to
I truly believe that LSU could have beaten their 2018 NC team, also, LSU isn't Alabama which caved in during that game. The game would have been much closer, but with the way that Big game Joe plays, I think that he would have been the difference as usual in finding ways to secure the victory. Their fans keep saying crap like LSU should be thankful that they didn't play that great team, and instead played this year's slightly more or lesser talented team.

listen, LSU's defense was the difference in LSU becoming a really great team, and at the end of the season they found themselves.
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