Clemson 41, State 0

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A week after giving #1 Florida State all they could handle, there was no bright side at all for State today at Clemson.

A week after putting up 520 total yards (359 pass, 161 rush) on the nation’s top-ranked Seminoles, State managed only 156 total yards (121 yards rushing and only 35 yards passing on 4-of-18 by Brissett). Meanwhile, State’s defense was again torched for 493 yards (267 pass, 226 rush). And it could’ve been far worse if Clemson hadn’t backed off.

Box Score (ESPN)

Quite simply, State still has some serious problems on both sides of the ball.

Since leading Florida State 24-7 with 2:07 left in the first quarter last week, State has been outscored by a combined 90-17 over the next seven quarters. Since leading Florida State 38-28 with 6:37 left in the third quarter last week, State has been outscored by a combined 69-3 over the next five-and-half quarters of football.

The concern against Boston College next week is their 7th-ranked nationally 316 rushing yards per game, highlighted by 452 rushing yards against Southern Cal.

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  • 10/05/2014 at 5:35 PM #58216
    PackerInRussia
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    Coach D just wanted to make it clear to everyone that he is not a candidate for the Kansas job.

    10/05/2014 at 6:03 PM #58218
    YogiNC
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    tangogr33n wrote:

    To me, this is the worst beatdown I’ve remember as a member of the Pack. That’s going back over 20 years.

    TOB’s first year we lost 37 – 0 to Maryland. That was tough. Last game of the season too!

    Smarter than the average bear

    10/05/2014 at 6:18 PM #58220
    Fastback68
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    Comparing past beat downs to determine which was worse makes me twitch and laugh like Inspector Clouseau’s boss.

    Nice one, Packer!

    10/06/2014 at 10:34 AM #58246
    ryebread
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    There’s no way to sugar coat it. That was a beat down.

    What it means though is what is up for debate. I look at this in two ways — the logical and the NC State tinted glasses.

    The NC State @#($)* part of me thinks:
    – That slow start by the offense was way too predictable (look at my posts leading up to the game to see it). They’d read too many press clippings and had actually started slow before.
    – Our defense, particularly in the back, was totally outmatched. The game was over from the first bomb. There was going to be no way we could guard their receivers. It was the same thing UNC had happen last week.
    – Our rinky dink offense was easily controlled by a team that could shut down the edge.
    – DD and staff are now 0-10 in ACC play.
    – It’s eerily similar to Lowe in that we take a moral victory (out of a loss), think it is a sign of better things to come and then completely @#($)* the bed in the next game. We take 2 steps backwards for the 1/2 step forward we took in the moral victory loss.
    – It’s not just that we got crushed, it is how we got crushed. We looked scared and uninspired. That reminded me of Lowe’s bball teams (Michigan State anyone?) as well. 🙁
    – Thank god Dabo called off the dogs or it’d have been 70-0.

    The logical part of me thinks:
    – We had three losses in ink before the season started on this schedule — FSU, Clemson and Louisville.
    – Louisville is also going to beat us. If you watch them, they’re bigger, stronger and faster as well. Louisville looks like FSU and Clemson from a player physique perspective.
    – Clemson’s QB is really good. Had he played against Georgia, that game would have been much closer. Really, if they’d have groomed him in the offseason to take the reigns, they could easily be undefeated right now. Ifs and buts and candy and nuts, but this kid is the heir apparent to best QB in the ACC.
    – Clemson with this QB is the ACC’s best team. They’re more apt to run the table than FSU.

    Outside of Louisville, there’s no one else on the schedule that we cannot beat. I fully expect us to finish 7-5, which was my preseason prediction.

    The BC game is huge though. It’s a home game, and we really, really need a win before going to Louisville. We can’t walk out of Louisville 0-4 in the ACC and expect to do much more than split the last 4.

    This week against BC is going to tell us more about this staff and this team than FSU or Clemson did. If we’ve got a good staff that is building the right kind of program, we’re going to find a way to win at home against BC.

    10/06/2014 at 10:38 AM #58249
    BJD95
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    In football…matchups matter. And this one was BRUTAL for us.

    For one thing, Clemson’s offense involves spread principles too. And their defense practices against it all the time. So, it was “like against like” but on their field, with vastly superior talent (speed and size) and depth.

    Getting shut out was the only aspect that surprised me, and that was my own short-sightedness.

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