Clemson vs Florida State: Last Minute Predictions

Quarterback Deshaun Watson has led the charge and kept the Tigers offense moving. That’ll be a time to celebrate a poll. “Until then, it just doesn’t matter”.

The last time these Atlantic Coast Conference rivals met at “Death Valley”, the Seminoles handed Clemson a 51-14 beatdown and catapulted them into the national championship race.

Florida State wide receiver Travis Rudolph goes up for a touchdown catch in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Syracuse in Tallahassee, Fla., Saturday, October 31.

The Seminoles (7-1) are 16th in the CFB rankings.

“He can play in the game”, Fisher said with a laugh.

“We’re honored, and we’ve had a great season to this point”, Swinney said. “But as you go through the season, the margin for error gets smaller”. In the five years that Fisher has been Florida State’s head coach, the backup quarterback has started three games against the Tigers. And our fans don’t either. “He just dated us for a little while and kicked us to the curb”.

“Am I pumped about being 8-0?”

“The only poll we’re excited about will be released December 6”.

After last week’s loss at Florida State, Syracuse football coach Scott Shafer refrained from sharing his thoughts on starting quarterback Everett Golson’s notable absence from the injury report. Those questions have been quickly forgotten as Deshaun Watson and company put together two consecutive games with over 50 points and three games with over 500 yards of offense.

“It was hard for him to play fast without the ball because he’d never done it”, coach Jimbo Fisher said of Whitfield’s development. “I expect them to clean up, especially if they stay in the playoff hunt”. That’s what they do after wins. They’re a very talented group across the board at all levels. Watkins was the National Football League draft’s fourth overall pick in 2014, going to the Buffalo Bills.

But the junior cornerback already had excelled on defense and had returned a punt for a touchdown this season.

“Whether you want to admit it or not, technology is just overtaking a big portion of the game”, Cutcliffe said this week. “That’s what Corn is”. He’s a really good person first. Those characteristics come out and come through in everything that he does. He will score at least one touchdown today and make a few big plays.

He also has 27 tackles and has broken up nine passes.

The Tigers are the only Top 10 team that has a win over a Top 10 opponent (Notre Dame) this season and faces a key ACC showdown when Florida State visits.

“Those are the reasons why you’re in this position you’re in right now”, he told reporters.

“I don’t think it’s the defining game of the season”, Fisher said. “As long as we keep doing well, our exposure will rise and obviously help in Florida”. He missed last week’s game with a concussion which led to Sean Maguire getting the start.

The others: Lamar Jackson (Louisville), Dak Prescott (Mississippi State), Seth Collins (Oregon State) and Jerrod Heard (Texas). He is the ten best touchdown pass thrower in the FBS, completing 24 TD passes. If FSU is confident its defensive backs and linebackers can play catch-up if they get beat at the line of scrimmage, maybe coordinator Charles Kelly asks his players to rough up the Tigers before they get into their routes to throw off the timing. The hiring of Tommy Bowden at Clemson began the Bowden Bowl as his Tigers clashed with his father’s FSU team each year.

Clemson’s defense, meanwhile, will be looking to prove that last week’s game in Raleigh was a fluke. However, another aspect of why they are No. 1 in the country has been the way their schedule has set up perfectly. He was averaging 108.1 yards per game.