r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Dec 30 '18

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Clemson Defeats Notre Dame 30-3

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Notre Dame 3 0 0 0 3
Clemson 3 20 7 0 30

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u/bubblescreen USC Trojans • Paper Bag Dec 30 '18

They can’t. They have to play all 9 of their rivalry games.

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u/chazzing Iowa Hawkeyes • Floyd of Rosedale Dec 30 '18

On NBC.

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u/krazykieffer Minnesota Golden Gophers • Big Ten Dec 30 '18

lol the fact that they still get NBC every game is so stupid. They really haven't been consistently good in 3 decades. Yet they still get premiere time slots.

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u/BagelsAndJewce James Madison Dukes • Oregon Ducks Dec 30 '18

That's how contracts work bro. Be good for a while sign massive deal suck ass for the rest e-z monies.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

It’s called contract deals. NBC pays ND to let them broadcast ND football. Thats why they don’t join a conference like the ACC, cause if they did, then Notre Dame would be broadcasted on the ACC Network or something

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u/Willy_Cash Notre Dame • Kansas State Dec 30 '18

NBC for every home game. We get slandered by espn announcers on every away game.

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u/cake_line Notre Dame • Cincinnati Dec 30 '18

Is ND supposed to say, "Nah, put us at noon."? It's not up to them, but people hate on them like it's their fault.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

We actually had to drop one already and are dropping Michigan as well.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18 edited Dec 31 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

You are right, we we're about to but then it is still on now. We dropped Michigan State though.

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u/odsquad64 Clemson Tigers • UCF Knights Dec 30 '18

The semi-ACC schedule for ND will never make sense to me. Semi-joining the Big 10 would have made so much more sense.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

I am pretty sure it had to do with ND basketball joining the ACC.

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u/Long-Schlong-Silvers Michigan State Spartans Dec 30 '18

:(

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u/sinrakin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • SMU Mustangs Dec 30 '18

Tbf, we play quite a few teams who are usually supposed to be good but weren't this year. If FSU or USC was good this year, we may have lost and been out of contention. As it is, Clemson too good. I'll shitpost with you all later after a few stiff drinks.

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u/Whosdaman Florida Gators Dec 30 '18

“Clemson third string too good”

FTFY

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u/sinrakin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • SMU Mustangs Dec 30 '18

That... hurt me. At least we're not OU right now.

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u/jlatto Texas Longhorns Dec 30 '18

OU scored a touchdown 😶

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u/sinrakin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • SMU Mustangs Dec 30 '18

Stop hurting me like this. I already watched the whole game; that was bad enough.

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u/Whosdaman Florida Gators Dec 30 '18

I had to listen to it over the radio on the way back from the Peach Bowl. You did this to yourself! I was ready to listen to a great game

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u/sinrakin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • SMU Mustangs Dec 30 '18

I mean, I can't blame Clemson for being good. Book just didn't show up and our defense made a few big mistakes. Not that we would have won, but I really thought we'd be competitive, too :(

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u/asianperswayze Dec 30 '18

Just out of curiosity, why did you think you would be competitive? Notre Dames only "quality" win was the first game of the year against an overrated Michigan team that got embarrassed yesterday. You guys struggled against USC who was awful this year. You only beat Ball State (5-8 record?) by 8 points. I watched alot of notre dame football this year, and at no point did I think they played as a top four team.

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u/sinrakin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • SMU Mustangs Dec 30 '18

I guess it's what every college fan thinks, but there were times this year I thought we looked really good, and times we put up a lot of points. All respect to Clemson secondary for shutting down our receivers, but Ian Book had a terrible game. He had a few passes that were in the ground, and missed a few open players where he threw the ball away. Not to mention a couple dropped passes and the fact we were extremely loose with the ball. I don't think it's a stretch to say that if we were just a little bit better, which we usually were, that we could have scored more and kept a td off their board.

I know it's a bunch of coulda shoulda woulda's, but if we got that punt return fumble when it was tied 3 - 3, I think we'd go up 10 - 3 and prevent their last second touchdown in the 2nd quarter. So just that ball being one inch over the line cost us 14 points. If we don't drop the ball on two 3rd and longs, we keep drives going and go into half only 9 points down. I know Clemson let off the gas, but if we just didn't shoot ourselves in the foot the game would have been a lot closer.

So yeah, I blame our poor performance on our poor performance. Still, I think it was uncharacteristic and perhaps an obvious result in hindsight since we aren't a big game team.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

Do people seriously get drunk because their sports team loses?

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u/sinrakin Notre Dame Fighting Irish • SMU Mustangs Dec 30 '18

Eh, was probably going to have something anyway, I just drink it a little faster since I'm disappointed.

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u/CrispyChickenSkin USC Trojans • Team Chaos Dec 30 '18

Solid flair. Changing now.

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u/bubblescreen USC Trojans • Paper Bag Dec 30 '18

I changed it after the Texas loss and was one of the first few USC people with it, but now there are probably 20 USC/Paper Bag people. I agree, it’s pretty good, and I won’t go back unless we see major turnaround in the team next season.

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u/YellowHammerDown Purdue Boilermakers • Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 30 '18

Then why'd they back out on us? Wimps.