My take on the UNC/FSU game is that FSU has improved greatly since we played them in the first game. UNC should have still beat them; but UNC took FSU too lightly and let UNC get to far behind early. Once UNC woke up it was a different game and UNC almost pulled off one of the biggest comebacks in UNC history. I watched the last few minutes of the game and FSU looked much more physical, organized, and energetic than they did when we played them.
We were always going to get beat by Clemson; but the reason we got run out of our own stadium in the first half is that the offense did nothing to slow the game down and kept doing quick 3 and outs. I think we were like 2 of 14 on 3rd down conversions for the game. Even with the defensive stops and takeaways, the offense needs to run some clock or you get embarrassed like we did. Clemson played 4 QBs, 10 players got carries, 17 players had receptions, they even used 2 different punters (I guess one was busy playing QB); and our whiney fans complain that Dabo ran up the score. What do you want Dabo to do, he can only play the players on his roster and I think all of them did. Saban would have done much the same thing, put in the bottom of the roster but still expect them to perform. Our coaching staff never seemed to figure out to how slow the bleeding and unwittingly helped to create a historic blowout. Hard to believe our defense actually got 6 stops (2 turnovers, 4 punts).
