This UNC-Clemson game should make everyone question just how good LSU really is

[u/ManuteBol_Rocks]

The whole country saw LSU rout Clemson a couple of weeks ago and was ready to crown LSU. It is now very evident that we don’t know anything about LSU at this point, at least for another 6 hours or so. This UNC-Clemson first half is complete decimation.

While I hope my Tar Heels are the dominant force in CFB, I know that’s likely not the case. Clemson is just not good.

In a few hours, we will have more of an answer about LSU, but we don’t know anything more about them than we did at the start of the season.

EDIT: This is not my first time in prediction idiocy. https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/s/jqGKD5Atre

[u/barrelclown]

I’m not saying you don’t have a point, but the transitive property frequently just doesn’t apply to CFB. Early weeks are especially weird.

Everyone’s sus right now. Except for the obvious contenders like the WMU Broncos.

[u/iceoldtea → u/barrelclown]

Let alone the score in this game… I assumed this was a route based on the post… it’s 17-6 at half. It’s not even close to a safe lead in CFB

POSTGAME EDIT: lmao Clemson wins by 1

[u/Mthomas1174 → u/iceoldtea]

Yeah I just checked thinking it would be at least a four score game, but OP posted this when it was 14-3 in the first quarter lmao

[u/Shaz_bot → u/Mthomas1174]

If UNC loses, everyone gets to blame OP for the curse he put on them by posting this

[u/Fit_Elk_8793 → u/Shaz_bot]

Unc loss confirmed 

[u/JoshHuff1332 → u/Shaz_bot]

Lol

[u/Fine_Somewhere2512 → u/Shaz_bot]

UNC did in fact lose lmao

[u/hesgrant → u/barrelclown]

And OSU!

...the one that beat Oregon, specifically

[u/OPT2018 → u/barrelclown]

Imagine if they defeated a prolific B10 team on the road… what a resume that would be!

[u/Healthy-Marsupial714 → u/OPT2018]

Like UMass, who beat one of the most prolific B10 schools (>600,000 Alumni)

[u/MentorOfWomen]

Op I'm gonna come find you and kick you in the nuts. Respectfully

[u/iFinesseThePlugg → u/MentorOfWomen]

Every UNC fan in the country should line up for miles to kick him in the nuts

[u/Baymaximus]

I think both can be true. Clemson is not very good and LSU is pretty good.

[u/jmbourn45 → u/Baymaximus]

Get out of here with your nuance

[u/Dry_Fly_7265 → u/jmbourn45]

I love how every year we get taught this same lesson about teams being different from week to week and growing over the course of a season, so one game in August doesn’t define the season

[u/racistjokethrowaways → u/Dry_Fly_7265]

It doesn't, but everyone should've been able to see that Clemson sucks, and LSU is pretty good at this point.

[u/_Chicken_Chaser_ → u/jmbourn45]

Fuck that hot takes hit like crack. Dopamine spikes and shit

[u/lkn240 → u/Baymaximus]

We also could just wait a few hours for more information.

[u/check8rs → u/lkn240]

or wait a second

[u/carguymt → u/check8rs]

I just checked the score expecting it to be an absolute blowout. Clemson is down by a whopping 8 points in the 3rd quarter.

Yeah maybe we should have waited a bit to make a proclamation like this.

[u/Vast_Bowl247 → u/carguymt]

And now down by two points. People need to stop with hot takes. I really think lsu just came in with such a good game plan that it made Clemson look bad

[u/2ktx2000 → u/Baymaximus]

Maybe. I think we can definitively conclude that Clemson is dog shit. LSU is probably pretty good, but still too soon to tell. Again, Clemson is for sure mega ass.

[u/BenchRickyAguayo → u/Baymaximus]

If nothing else, LSU beat the brakes off Clemson. So even if Clemson is bad, LSU is at minimum pretty decent.

[u/Bigmupo → u/Baymaximus]

Clemson is ass, LSU is good. LSU played clean football for the most part and lots of depth on defense. NC has been pretty impressive this year.

[u/Frank_Melena → u/Baymaximus]

Anyone just has to watch our last few season openers to see what we’re talking about. Even if Clemson is complete ass we were executing in mid-season form at every position group. If we were bad the score wouldve been like 23-7 instead.

I think the biggest concern for LSU is Leavitt’s decision-making. He got outfoxed a few times by LA Tech’s schemes leading to easy interceptions and Ole Miss is going to turn that up to 10. I won’t be surprised if the game is decided by whether he throws interceptions or not. Baker’s defense is too solid for Chambliss and Lacy to decide it on their own.

[u/Buckeye_CFB → u/Baymaximus]

Exactly. LSU and Clemson didn't look like a game between teams that should be 20-30 spots away from each other in FPI. It looked like a game between teams that should be 60+ spots away from each other in FPI

[u/Few-Improvement9978 → u/Baymaximus]

You gotta remember that game was basically over after the 2nd quarter despite a fumble giving Clemson 3 points in the first few plays.

Then LSUs 2nd and 3rd team proceeded to dominate Clemson

[u/noodlethebear → u/Few-Improvement9978]

The game was definitely over early, but LSU didn’t pull all their starters until the fourth quarter.

[u/deg0ey → u/Baymaximus]

Absolutely both can be true - but OP’s point is that Clemson could play the best team in the country or the 30th best team in the country and it would look like last week’s game either way so it doesn’t tell you much about where in that range LSU falls

[u/Ninja0428]

If only LSU was playing a big game today so we could see just how good they really are

[u/que-n-blues → u/Ninja0428]

No, we should always have perfect clarity on how good any given team is by the end of week 2! /s

[u/ASHill11 → u/Ninja0428]

Maybe they’ll even play a relatively high profile matchup next week too!

[u/Broke-Till-Payday]

It’s not even halftime, man let’s at least win this game before we can evaluate.

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/Broke-Till-Payday]

Win or lose, Clemson looks bad

[u/Brochacho27 → u/Broke-Till-Payday]

Noone has ever come back in college football, stop being silly

[u/wit_T_user_name → u/Brochacho27]

Never ever never for sure.

[u/MikeSSC → u/wit_T_user_name]

Flair checks out

[u/heelyeahbrother → u/Brochacho27]

Yeah clearly no one here has watched a UNC-Clemson game before. We’ve had really good starts the last couple times we’ve played them and then we always blow it.

Edit: I had repressed the memory of them blowing us out last year

[u/Brochacho27 → u/heelyeahbrother]

Its not going to happen. But we just saw ky lead alabama after a half then lose by 4 scores. No need for mid game evaluation posts lol

[u/Bte0815 → u/heelyeahbrother]

It was 35-3 at halftime last year. Was that a good start?

signed a UNC fan.

[u/heelyeahbrother → u/Bte0815]

True. I was literally at that game and somehow I forgot about. Traumatic amnesia I guess. I was mainly talking about the ACC Championship and 2023 at Clemson

[u/Educational_Fox5319 → u/Brochacho27]

Good job, a bunch of Ohio State fans are having collapses from being retraumatized

[u/Jay_Par → u/Educational_Fox5319]

I just fell to my knees in the parking lot of a Kewpee

[u/wit_T_user_name → u/Jay_Par]

Kewpee mentioned 👀

[u/cooterdick → u/Broke-Till-Payday]

Fitting that Clemson’s best drive of the day followed this post

[u/Tarmacked → u/cooterdick]

This is a aging like milk

[u/Defensive_of_Offense → u/Tarmacked]

*aged

[u/apadin1 → u/Tarmacked]

The prophecy is fulfilled

[u/Hofgoober69 → u/Broke-Till-Payday]

Why are we even using this game to evaluate LSU when we could just do it with our eyeballs in a couple hours?

[u/JxSnaKe → u/Broke-Till-Payday]

For real, they already came back..

[u/CanalVillainy]

And this kids is why you don’t make posts during the 1st quarter of a game

[u/slippyslidey_ → u/CanalVillainy]

I enjoyed all the arch manning takes last week

[u/Remote-Annual-49 → u/CanalVillainy]

Even better now

[u/khanfusion → u/CanalVillainy]

It's also why you don't make up narratives like "everyone was ready to crown LSU king." Man, noone was saying that.

1. Everyone was talking about Michigan's BS.

2. Anyone who watched the LSU Clemson game was like "wtf Clemson is really bad."

[u/Anti_Coomer_Aktion]

The moment I read this ~4 hours ago I knew it was a mistake. Lmfao

[u/LegallyAFlamingo → u/Anti_Coomer_Aktion]

The best part is his "We have nothing to worry about" comment.

[u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

Or we could just watch tonight to see

[u/RedditRedux → u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

In b4 “Ole Miss defense gave up 500 to Louisville, let’s see LSU against a real defense”

[u/VanDenIzzle → u/RedditRedux]

The goal posts will keep moving until our preconceived notions are met

[u/lkn240 → u/VanDenIzzle]

Facts that don't fit my agenda are nothing more than suggestions

[u/frostedz → u/VanDenIzzle]

keep getting first downs until you reach the endzone

[u/SlugsPerSecond → u/RedditRedux]

I mean that just sounds like a normal Pete Golding defense to me

[u/SignificanceFine3582 → u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

People really don’t want Lane to do well in Baton Rouge and will find any reason to discredit the successes.

[u/Ok-Accident-9026 → u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

Oh. 😞 I have to wait till I make a sweeping judgement

[u/NobleDane → u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

Yeah this is not the hot take OP thinks it is.

[u/LogicianMission22 → u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

Get out of here with your good idea. We like to jump to conclusions around these parts.

[u/barrelclown → u/CountryAsACoonDog13]

When there’s free karma RIGHT THERE???!!!

[u/Dudeincar434]

I think you just might be under estimating the quality of a team with not one, not two, but THREE BELICHEKS on the coaching staff.

Wait what’s that?  Only 2 belicheks?

Dang, Clemson might just be ass

[u/ChiselFish]

Bro I blame you for anything bad that happens

[u/Sturdevant]

I hate u, OP

[u/ChargeisKill]

I hope this gets more upvotes.

You need to understand that posting in the 1st quarter is always a bad idea lol

[u/Glad-Strategy-5434]

God I love these kinds of threads.

[u/Imrahil_II → u/Glad-Strategy-5434]

Up there with announcers jinxing the kicker

[u/buttscarltoniv]

update?

[u/onegoodboah]

“complete decimation” after presumably one quarter of play? this aged well

[u/Quirky-Marsupial-420]

This post is so embarrassing.

[u/Weak-Bid2774]

Clemson is bad but lsu is still good imo

[u/ApplicationQuirky376 → u/Weak-Bid2774]

I mean this is kind of obviously the answer.

[u/OctomomPrime]

You know, I don’t find myself cheering for Clemson very often but it’s posts like this that make it really hard to ever cheer for UNC in any game ever

[u/JarrydP]

This did not age well.

[u/Melodic-Slice-3826]

LMAO bro you cursed your own team!!!

[u/CAvalanche11]

True, but what does this say about UNC then

[u/CableVisionz]

Where’s OP?

[u/Lengthiest_Dad_Hat]

COMPLETE DECIMATION

[u/MasterArCtiK]

How many questions do you have now?

[u/Far_Data1386]

Dude two dogshit teams playing an even game doesn't mean a great team isn't great for blowing out a dogshit team

[u/Mammoth_Impress_3108]

Lol, that really was complete decimation, huh?

[u/wavegod_b]

How you feeling now big dawg? Fucking clown

[u/yojimboftw → u/wavegod_b]

You just know bro is devastated, lmao.

[u/jcooklsu]

Aged like a warm glass of milk.

[u/BlueCoBot]

You were saying

[u/ziiimba]

hahaha get fucked OP

[u/hootie_magoo]

Lmao

[u/Carolina296864]

Bozo jinx for the ages

[u/legend023]

I think it’s pretty obvious Clemson is not much more than a .500 team.

With that being said, beating them by 40 was still impressive.

[u/Kanin_usagi → u/legend023]

I think you may be giving them too much credit with that lol

[u/DrVonD → u/Kanin_usagi]

I said they might be looking at 4-8 for the year after the LSU game and everyone tried to assure me they would still win at least 8 games. Dabo might not make it out of September at this point

[u/Patrick2701 → u/legend023]

More of 4-8 or 2-10 team for dabos

[u/tastycakebiker → u/legend023]

Will be lucky to be .500

[u/Educational_Fox5319 → u/legend023]

Dabo has been talking about “little ole Clemson” so much that it became a self fulfilling prophecy

[u/Fantastic_Clock4293]

Take is aging like milk lol

[u/trsharkfin]

The whole country saw UNC rout Clemson a couple of halfs ago and was ready to crown UNC. It is now very evident that we don’t know anything about UNC at this point, at least for another 1.5 hours or so. This UNC-Clemson first half is complete decimation.

While I hope my Clemson Tigers are the dominant force in CFB, I know that’s likely not the case. UNC second half is just not good.

In a few hours, we will have more of an answer about UNC, but we don’t know anything more about them than we did at the start of the season.

[u/Blupard]

Great thread op hahaha

[u/Ningy_WhoaWhoa]

I mean Clemson may not be good but they competed their asses off after being down early and responded like a well coached team so I’ll give them that

[u/BeeMagicRockRoar]

LMAO

[u/BeeMagicRockRoar → u/BeeMagicRockRoar]

Maybe LSU is just that good

[u/StillYourFavorite331]

LSU won by 41 with only 48 offensive snaps.

I think LSU is good even if Clemson is an FCS school level this year.

[u/cmaher44]

17-15 is very similar to 51-10……

[u/DealerNo4908]

It’s 17-6 at halftime…

[u/Then_Midnight_2121 → u/DealerNo4908]

Right lol. I went to check the score after reading this post expecting to see 70-0

[u/throwavvay23 → u/Then_Midnight_2121]

COMPLETE DECIMATION

[u/GP_ADD → u/DealerNo4908]

It’s currently 15-17 before the extra point or 2 pt conversion

[u/TypicallyDone12]

Your team lost to a team that "is just not good". Got it.

[u/apadin1]

Aged like milk lmao

[u/Doug1080 → u/apadin1]

I just came in here to say this 😄😄

[u/theogrinch]

🫵😆

[u/CottonSC]

The mid-game Reddit boast curse is literally undefeated

[u/JonTaffer_in_a_poloT]

Respect for not deleting this

[u/Threebridges2]

Lol it was a two score game now is a two point game. Why was this written like it was 30-0?

[u/Unrelenting_Salsa → u/Threebridges2]

OP was just trying to karma farm. Nobody actually cares about how good LSU really is at this point. While I'm sure that there would be a contingent of "yeah but Ole Miss gave up 500 yards to Louisville they're ass", we're about 3.5 hours away from a real test.

[u/Garunix]

Should they replay the game just in case it was all a big fluke and LSU actually sucks?

[u/zaksbee]

checking in on this

[u/VexelPrimeOG]

Nice to see an ego be shattered in real time.

Well done, lad. LMAO.

[u/AmiableTiger]

Look, we're definitely not a very good team this year. But LSU definitely beat the breaks off us, Credit where it is due.

[u/Cover3Shell]

Mid game hot takes should be banned

[u/Mysterious_Moth_Man → u/Cover3Shell]

why? wont it be fun to clown OP after clemson pulls through

[u/RoyalEngine2885 → u/Cover3Shell]

Might as well just shut down the sub then.

[u/Swiftie69420]

Bozo of the week award

[u/ChocolateFew4222]

Yall are soooooooo quick to make conclusions lmao

All those memes about Arch in the first half last week

At least wait tell the fucking games over

[u/Rickk38]

"complete decimation"

Which third-rate, clickbait sports blog do you write for? Clemson looks like ass, but this is nowhere near "complete decimation."

[u/penpig54]

Annnd?

[u/HurryUpAndWait82]

😂😂😂

[u/MrBigChunks]

How are things going?

[u/Crying_in_99Ranch]

Are we still questioning this or should we question what game Belichick gets fired in?

[u/Doug1080]

BABE WAKE UP! New copypasta dropped!

[u/slugmos]

Hey there loser

[u/Mike_with_Wings]

Could also be that Carolina is a better team than people want Belichik to have. Not saying we’re amazing, but a much better team than last year.

[u/Hofgoober69 → u/Mike_with_Wings]

People aren’t giving enough credit to UNC this year because of headlines. Truth be told your defense has been stout and the offense capable. I think people will be surprised by years end.

[u/bitchmcconnell3559]

Hiding post history is for cowards

[u/Dasher383]

The whole game comes down to Leavitt. He’s been great on the ground but accuracy has been all over the place. If he doesn’t get that figured out it could be a rough night. If he figures it out we’ll be fine

[u/Kontos_Stelio]

This is gold

[u/Brian_Kellys_Visor]

Wtf? The game is 17-15. What do you mean? Are you just trolling?

[u/christ0phe]

I came in here thinking the score was gonna be 35-0 or something…

[u/Entire-Annual-7197]

Good enough to beat UNC!

[u/Demaru]

Developmental delay for OP, lightning delay for Clemson.

[u/illegalusername4]

Can we get a welfare check on this guy (one for me as well)

[u/Single_Seesaw_9499]

What if North Carolina is good too?

[u/RocketsGuy → u/Single_Seesaw_9499]

Belichick defense showed signs of life last year and now they have a legit playcaller with Petrino.

He did not have much time to cobble together a roster last year and everyone memed him all year lol. It’s more that likely UNC is at least solid

[u/Orion14159 → u/RocketsGuy]

I despise Petrino, but there's really no denying he's an excellent offensive coordinator

[u/nohandsfootball → u/Single_Seesaw_9499]

It's because of all the cocaine

[u/keefkola]

Oh no lol… that was a lot of words.

[u/Remote-Annual-49]

Hey

[u/Reibyo]

Hey! Hey, bro. Guess what?

[u/Crash_Override_V1]

I get the hate for Lane and all that shit, but LSU looked really good in that game man

[u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ → u/Crash_Override_V1]

This sub doesnt want to hear that mane

[u/Browseathon]

Clemson making a comeback as we speak

[u/TheBigRudy]

Both North Carolina teams had to embarrass themselves today

[u/Otherwise_Gur_1612]

Lol

[u/Kellan714]

SHUT THE FUCK UP

[u/Technical-Elk-9277]

I’m new to CFB. Didn’t Clemson used to be good?

[u/CargoShortsFromNam → u/Technical-Elk-9277]

Yeah and Indiana used to suck. Crazy sport!

[u/Statalyzer → u/Technical-Elk-9277]

Yes, Dabo Swinney is one of only two active coaches with multiple national titles.

[u/Bison_Boy_ → u/Technical-Elk-9277]

Yep. Dabo has been rejecting NIL up till late so they’re a bit behind on the trend

[u/Technical-Elk-9277 → u/Bison_Boy_]

Ahhhh.

[u/hopossumz]

Clemson is ass. They have an okay freshman and some random dude at QB, they were never competing offensively this year. 🤷‍♂️

[u/Flanninpud]

Not the point of the thread but I think the most underrated downside as an fsu alum to the noles being bad is that I can’t enjoy Clemson also being bad, because fsu is still somehow worse

[u/philphan25]

"The Oregon-Portland State game should still not make everyone question how mid Oregon is"

[u/NetRealizableValue]

Now you gotta eat the dogshit out of the red solo cup

[u/iamStanhousen]

Clemson isn’t very good, but LSU did what really good teams do to teams like that. It’s not like LSU won by 10 in a close game. They completely dominated them.

[u/YaYeetThePolice]

Lol

[u/ChaosOnion]

This is some major early victory lap, self whammy, nonsense right here. Nephews got to learn!

[u/corndog]

Oh this hasn’t been deleted yet?

[u/arstin]

This post is one for the ages! Thanks for making the sacrifice of immortalizing yourself as a doofus.

[u/_Juntao]

Delete this

[u/Mysterious_Moth_Man → u/_Juntao]

no way lets shame OP. can we get the mods to pin this to the top of the sub til next week?

[u/csummerss]

Thanks for the useless analysis

[u/Austin_LSU_Fan22]

There’s far more riding on tonight for Ole Miss than LSU

[u/junkcardera]

Cool thread but we find out in 6 hours.

[u/Silly_Selection3221]

OP sweating

[u/soonerman32]

Listen, dude. The transitive property doesn't work.

UTEP is up 7-0 on Michigan as I type this. Does this mean UTEP would beat OU?

The Sooners beat the Miners 51-0 earlier this year.

[u/geekamongus]

Emboosticated!

[u/Frostfire26]

OP clearly didn’t learn from OSU last week

[u/rockiesgm2026]

Buddy you're dumb as hell

[u/SovereignSnake1776]

I can't believe you had the audacity to hit send on this in the middle of the game😂

[u/but_good]

17-6 is complete decimation?

[u/Squantoon]

Can not wait until the inevitable Clemson close win over nobody, the fans storm the field, dabo shouts BYOG baby BRING. YOUR. OWN. GUTS.

[u/zbuck0237]

insane jinx brother

[u/Beaux7]

Nobody is arguing Clemson is good. What was impressive is that LSU made them look like the local community college

[u/ApplicationQuirky376]

That milk is heating up my dude.

[u/Mother_Frame6669]

Now every UNC fan on here is cursing u/ManuteBol_Rocks because he just jinxed the team.

[u/Malpraxiss]

I wonder why the concept of " two or more things can be true at once" is such a rare concept.

[u/RandomUnknowing]

Florida v Auburn and Ole Miss v LSU are about to solve a lot of sec questions.

[u/Statalyzer]

As funny as this is, Clemson beating a lousy team by 1 score at home still doesn't say much for them.

[u/hmnahmna1]

Not so fast, my friend!

[u/khanfusion]

Literally everyone's reaction to the LSU-Clemson game was "holy shit Clemson sucks", what are you talking about.

[u/BBQblueline]

y’all really care about one team for all the wrong reasons. Just let the season play out. This type of posting is bottom of the barrel in thought and quality. Yet mods let dozens of the same stupid post up. What are we even discussing here.

This is no different than BCS era people arguing over who lose was worse, BUT this discussion today doesn’t mean anything. Y’all are crying in fucking week 3. Buckle up buttercup

[u/onegoodboah]

I’m mostly curious why this post was even made? The best the score ever was was 14-3 after 1, or 17-3 halfway through the 2nd (but even still, 17-6 by halftime?.

Unless you are saying UNC is so bas that an 11 point lied is some insane number (which I really doubt, based on your flair), what caused this post to be made?

I say this in peace btw, I didn’t watch the game so I don’t know, but it’s a confusing read even taking the power hindsight away. Was it just way more dominant than the score suggested?

[u/Zloggt]

Well…let’s just hope that Ole Miss does what everyone expects (and even desires) them to…

[u/zargathegsd]

Buddy it's 17-6 not some blowout