Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Props to LSU for kicking Clemson's butt. Sometimes the square play or easy play is also the correct play. (About half the time, actually!).
As I saw my Clemson ticket dissolve in the face of Burrow's pinpoint passing, I couldn't even get that upset as a fan of offense. That dude is just incredible.
I was disappointed that Lawrence couldn't move the chains more consistently, as I never expected that Clemson's D would hold LSU to like 24 points or something. Clemson needed to win a bit of a shootout and sustain drives to rest the D. After the first 17 Clemson points, Lawrence wasn't accurate enough to move the chains to stay on the field, and that exacerbated the advantage that LSU O had on the Clemson D.
Anyway, I was wrong here and paid the price.
The main difference in the outcome was the play of the LSU offensive line.
Trevor has gone from being the #1 pick in the 2021 draft to being the #1 pick in the 2021 draft. The first 25 games he played in, including last years National Championship, are quite the resume. It is unfortunate, however, that he had such a bad game Monday night. He was quite underwhelming for a change.