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Reliving 2016: Clemson’s Luck Runs Out, or Did It
Pitt 43, No. 2 Clemson 42
Editor’s note: Each week, the Clemson Insider honors Clemson’s 2016 National Championship Team by reliving that week’s game on the schedule. Follow all season long as we talk to players and coaches who lived through the ups and downs of a dramatic season that brought Clemson its first national championship in 35 years.
CLEMSON – The best directors, authors and screenwriters are all familiar with a narrative trope that has permeated storytelling for centuries.
This trope, fondly dubbed ‘plot armor,’ refers to the decision to keep a character written into a story simply because the tale would no longer make sense if the individual left the narrative.