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Sugar Bowl: #3 Ohio State 49, #2 Clemson 28, Jan 1 in New Orleans

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OH10 said:
They’ll dial up blitzes against Fields to generate a pass rush. Indiana had probably the best blitz scheme I’ve ever seen deployed against Ohio State. You never knew who was coming and from where. Venables will be watching that film and he’s smart enough to copy what worked best.

How do we adjust to it? We’ve been saying it for years but I truly believe you got to go more to your TEs on roll outs. Screen passes to a RB. Quick slants and crossing routes. Draw plays. And Fields has to be a willing runner when that first read isn’t there. There are ways to combat a blitz.
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Day needs to be hammering into Fields' head (and his own, I think) that whenever the short options are there, to take them quickly instead of continuing to stare down the field while someone's in the backfield pressuring you. 3-5 yards underneath and giving the WR/RB a chance to create is better than a deep incompletion in a game where every down is critical and the ball needs to keep progressing. Run the quick routes with Flemming and Sermon to death in practice, shovels to Sermon and Master. And of course quicker TE throws.
 
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heisman said:
Well, it seems we have our bulletin board material!!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-coaches-amway-coaches-poll-panel/6548641002/

Dabo Swinney, Clemson

1. Alabama

2. Clemson

3. Notre Dame

4. Texas A&M

5. Florida

6. Georgia

7. Cincinnati

8. Oklahoma

9. Iowa State

10. Coastal Carolina

11. Ohio State
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Add it to the 3x Dabo trashed OSU in interviews over the past 3 weeks and what happened last year. We didnt need anymore bulletin board material but always welcome to have more from Clemson.
BuckeyeNation27 said:
How does it feel to be such a smug douchebag when most people realize Venebles is the only reason you've ever won anything?
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Yes absolutely. He's the absolute largest reason why that program is where they are.
 
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bukIpower said:
Add it to the 3x Dabo trashed OSU in interviews over the past 3 weeks and what happened last year. We didnt need anymore bulletin board material but always welcome to have more from Clemson.

Yes absolutely. He's the absolute largest reason why that program is where they are.
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He also has had Deshaun Watson and now Trevor Lawrence. And the dumpster fire that is the ACC. Dabo is the luckiest man in college athletics.
 
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OH10 said:
They’ll dial up blitzes against Fields to generate a pass rush. Indiana had probably the best blitz scheme I’ve ever seen deployed against Ohio State. You never knew who was coming and from where. Venables will be watching that film and he’s smart enough to copy what worked best.

How do we adjust to it? We’ve been saying it for years but I truly believe you got to go more to your TEs on roll outs. Screen passes to a RB. Quick slants and crossing routes. Draw plays. And Fields has to be a willing runner when that first read isn’t there. There are ways to combat a blitz.
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Agreed all around, and my comments were about individual players, and an oddly average pass rush from a typically stellar front. Murphy will be another very good one in time but is also a true frosh.

I expect ryan to make things simpler for Justin. I hope for an uptick in simple rollout/dump offs to Rickert, which hopefully lead to more decisive throws to Justin on other plays.

Ross Fulton was really banging the drum about how often he had simple reads open but did not pull the trigger. Olave and Wilson are capable of chunk plays every snap, but it's the quicker 4-6 yd gains that will win this contest, and help him move back into the QB2 spot in the draft.
 
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heisman said:
Well, it seems we have our bulletin board material!!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-coaches-amway-coaches-poll-panel/6548641002/

Dabo Swinney, Clemson

1. Alabama

2. Clemson

3. Notre Dame

4. Texas A&M

5. Florida

6. Georgia

7. Cincinnati

8. Oklahoma

9. Iowa State

10. Coastal Carolina

11. Ohio State
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So, I was about to come here and be like, "Honestly I'm getting kinda sick of playing these fucking clowns, I'm gonna kind of not worry about it and I'll see you all for the game."

Donate to BP! Hooray! Etc.

Then this no talent hick ass clown puts us behind the fucking Juggaloes.

Like, OK, Coastal has been interesting and did that ball out move playing BYU on 2 days notice, I mean, nevermind that they have an actual Hobbit on the O-Line (Samwise Gamgee Thompson plays with great leverage!) so its not like they can beat us in the actual game... I get it you want to be cute... but the Juggaloes? Fuck all the way off.
 
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heisman said:
Well, it seems we have our bulletin board material!!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-coaches-amway-coaches-poll-panel/6548641002/

Dabo Swinney, Clemson

1. Alabama

2. Clemson

3. Notre Dame

4. Texas A&M

5. Florida

6. Georgia

7. Cincinnati

8. Oklahoma

9. Iowa State

10. Coastal Carolina

11. Ohio State
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Don't forget Saban's

Bama
Clemson
ND
aTm
Ohio State
Cincinnati

Those ratings would possibly be the worst ever for the CFP. Some of these coaches are so predictable based off where theu coach. Also, a lot of G5 coaches pushing Cincinnati in their rankings.
 
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S MOST COMPLETE TEAM
There’s only one team in college football that ranks in the top 11 nationally in total offense, scoring offense, total defense and scoring defense, and that team is Clemson.

Clemson has scored 44.9 points per game (fourth-most in the Football Bowl Subdivision) on 507.6 yards per game (11th) while allowing just 17.5 points per game (11th) on 298.5 yards per game (sixth). The Tigers also rank fifth nationally in yards allowed per play (4.63), though they drop to 16th (6.72) in yards gained per play.

The Tigers have scored at least 34 points in every game they’ve played this season while holding their opponents to 28 points or fewer in all but one game this season, with the lone exception coming in their 47-40 regular-season loss to Notre Dame.

PEAKING AT THE RIGHT TIME?
When this year’s first batch of College Football Playoff rankings were released and Clemson checked in at No. 3, one spot ahead of then-No. 4 Ohio State, there was reason for Buckeye fans to question whether the Tigers really deserved to be ahead of the Buckeyes. At the time, Clemson had not played for two weeks after suffering its loss to Notre Dame; before that, Clemson had to grind out a 34-28 victory over Boston College, and before that, the Tigers were in a one-score game in the third quarter with Syracuse (who went 1-10 this season) before pulling away late in a 47-21 win.

Since then, though, Clemson has been completely dominant. Upon Lawrence’s return from a two-game absence due to a positive COVID-19 test, the Tigers defeated Pittsburgh 52-17, Virginia Tech 45-10 and then Notre Dame 34-10 in their rematch with the Fighting Irish in this past weekend’s ACC Championship Game.

Perhaps most notably, Clemson’s biggest weakness earlier in this season – its rushing offense – has hit its stride in the last couple of weeks, as the Tigers averaged 7.9 yards per carry against Virginia Tech and 8.1 yards per carry in the ACC title game after averaging less than four yards per carry in each of their previous four games.

“We're at our best right now,” Swinney said during a teleconference on Sunday. “This is the healthiest we've been by far.”
 
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