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Reliving 2016: It was Schuessler’s Time to Shine

No. 3 Clemson 54, Syracuse 0

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 – Deshaun Watson and his accompanying Clemson Tigers were cruising for another touchdown and another ACC blowout on a November afternoon in 2016 when the dreaded injury bug paid a visit.

Watson, a clear Heisman candidate by kickoff against Syracuse on Nov.