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Wayne Gallman Scampers 59 Yards For The Touchdown
For a 6-foot-1 running back, Clemson’s Wayne Gallman can really move. He took this one 59 yards to the house, and made a nice cut, broke a tackle, and ran right by four defenders in the process. ...
Lamar Jackson Got Choked, Lost, And Still Had An Amazing Game
Deshaun Watson and the Clemson Tigers beat Louisville 42-36 Saturday night, but Cardinals QB Lamar Jackson drew the most attention. Determining a Heisman winner this early into the season is foolish, so I won’t, but even the “bad” version of Jackson was fantastic....
Here Is Your Clemson <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
College GameDay was at Clemson this morning in preparation for tonight’s big game against Louisville. Here are some signs that were visible on television!...
Here Is How Not To Field A Kickoff
Clemson is currently beating the snot out of South Carolina State, an FCS team with an athletic budget 90% smaller than the Tigers’. It doesn’t help that the Bulldogs botched a touchback by tossing a live ball to the official....
Dabo Swinney's "Broad Brush" Paints A Beautiful America That Doesn't Exist
In an interview that manages to be equal parts expected and stunning, Dabo Swinney, head coach of the reigning national runner-up Clemson Tigers, has issued his Colin Kaepernick take, and it’s as beautiful as is it maddening....
Ray-Ray McCloud Boner Costs Clemson Touchdown<em></em>
Ray-Ray McCloud’s 74-yard punt return went to waste after the Clemson returner dropped the football prior to crossing the goal line, handing possession back over to Troy with a touchback....
Tomorrow's Clemson-Auburn Game, Simulated In <i>NCAA '97</i> With Updated Rosters
It’s Facebook Live Friday, so here’s tomorrow’s big Clemson-Auburn game—using a Sega Genesis, the EA Sports NCAA football game from 20 years ago, and updated rosters. It’s LIVE:...
Deadspin 25: Everybody Duck, Deshaun Watson's Best Receiver Is Back
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Entitled Asshole Gets Undeserved Raise
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney, whose team lost 45-40 to Alabama in this year’s national championship game, just got a raise. His new contract will pay him more than $30 million over the next six years. ...
Seth Beer, Clemson's Freshman Dynamo, Will Be The First Beer To Play In The Majors
Many, many people have played professional baseball, and as math would have it, a few of them have names that sounded like the sport’s favorite drink. Back in ’48, a Clarence Beers pitched most of one inning, badly, for the Cardinals. More recently, a Scott Beerer kicked around the minors for most o...
Deshaun Watson Deserved Better
It’s not right to call any part of Alabama’s 45-40 victory in last night’s national championship game fluky, but there’s no denying that they were carried to the win by precisely the kind of wild, momentum-swinging plays that we usually see buoying an underdog’s chances. ‘Bama was of course the favo...
Clemson Doomed Themselves By Giving Up Too Many Big Plays
On most plays during the national championship game, it seemed that the outcome favored Clemson. Their defensive line sacked Alabama QB Jake Coker five times and harried him endlessly, while Clemson QB Deshaun Watson frequently had all day to stand in the pocket. Besides a 50-yard TD scamper (we’ll ...
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Officials' Timing Blunder Hurts Clemson; FG Attempt Falls Short
Greg Huegel’s 44-yard field goal attempt fell short after Clemson found themselves without a chance to run an additional play when officials allowed several seconds to run off the clock after a first down late in the first half of tonight’s national championship....
Tom Brady's Agent Makes The Case For Alabama And Clemson Players To Boycott National Title Game
In a very good, lengthy, well-researched editorial for the Washington Post, Donald Yee digs into the economics of college sports, makes the case for paying college football players, examines the racial lines along which this injustice is served, and suggests that a boycott of tomorrow’s national cha...
Clemson Fake Punt Sets Up Go-Ahead Touchdown
Clemson punter Andy Teasdall connected with Christian Wilkins for 31 yards and a first down as Dabo Swinney used some trickery to get the Tigers inside Oklahoma’s 15-yard line. Two plays later, Deshaun Watson found the end zone to put Clemson up 10-7 in today’s first college football playoff semifin...
Report: Three Clemson Players Suspended From Orange Bowl For Failing Drug Tests
According to a report from Price Atkinson of ESPN Greenville and later confirmed by others, Clemson’s Deon Cain, Ammon Lakip, and Jay Jay McCullough are going to be suspended from the team’s College Football Playoff/Orange Bowl matchup with Oklahoma on Thursday for a violation of team rules. The Cle...
Here Are Your College Football Playoff Matchups
ESPN just revealed the matchups for the second annual College Football Playoff. #1 Clemson will take on #4 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, and #2 Alabama has #3 Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. Both games will be played on December 31, with the final on January 11 in Arizona. ...