Four games into the season, Clemson is sitting at 2-2 and virtually with no shot at the playoff. But the Tigers are still showing some promise.
"It sucks," Thomas said."It came down to a couple plays in a game we know we should've won. We gave it to them."Coach Dabo Swinney arrived at the podium postgame dressed, as usual, in a neatly pressed suit, and gave a beleaguered postscript that has felt entirely too common lately.
In the grander scheme of the college football hierarchy, however, Saturday felt like an official changing of the guard, the moment when Florida State's ascendancy intersected with Clemson's slow decline. "We don't sit around acting like we're the top team. We've just got to compete, show up, do our best to represent this university with class. Today wasn't our day. I don't look at it as a referendum. I just look at it as we lost the game."The Tigers are 2-2 for the second time in the past three years.
And yet, to watch Clemson play Florida State on Saturday was hardly an indictment of a program teetering on the brink. It was, instead, one of the toughest performances the Tigers have turned in since their last national title in 2018."I hope everybody saw what this team is really capable of," Klubnik said."It's one play and it's a different ballgame. We played really good against the No. 4 team in the country.
After Saturday's loss, Swinney lamented the fumble-turned-touchdown that signaled a serious shift in the game's dynamic as evidence of the bad luck his team has endured. In those four losses since November, Clemson is minus-five in turnover margin. Oh, how different it might've been.
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