Well, I said I’d have to see a blowout in Tallahassee to believe it, and man did the team ever make a believer out of me! I spent most of the second half thinking back to the 1993 team, the 2000 team, and the 2013 team who all suffered huge beatdowns at the hands of FSU. The 1993 game was particularly painful because it had been a very, very long time since a Clemson team was that outclassed in a football game. I applaud Swinney and the Tigers for exacting some payback for those games.
Saturday was a huge message for recruits in Florida and beyond about the directions of the two programs, and Florida State embarrassed themselves about as much as a team could do it with ejections, penalties, and a sub 70K crowd for a game against a top 2 team in the nation.