The biggest game in Atlantic Coast Conference history turned out to be among the most lop-sided losses Death Valley has ever witnessed …
Led by new Heisman Trophy frontrunner Jameis Winston, fifth-ranked Florida State eviscerated No. 3 Clemson 51-14 on Saturday night – dealing head coach Dabo Swinney’s squad one of the most humiliating defeats in school history.
Looking every bit at home – and every bit like the poised senior leader Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd was supposed to be – Winston completed 22 of 34 passes for 444 yards and three touchdowns for the Seminoles (6-0, 4-0 ACC). The freshman sensation also ran for another score – earning rave reviews for his poise and leadership as well as his athletic prowess.
“We ain’t leaving without a victory,” Winston said before the game.
His team left with a rout – outgaining Clemson 565-326 and setting a record for the most points ever scored by a visiting team in Death Valley (where the ‘Noles hadn’t won since 2001). The epic egg-laying by the Tigers (6-1, 4-1) was also the worst-ever home loss by a top three team in history.
A Heisman frontrunner entering the game, Boyd limped through one of the worst performances of his career against the ‘Noles. He completed just 17 of 37 passes for 156 yards with one touchdown and a pair of interceptions. The senior signal caller also lost a fumble which was returned 37 yards for a touchdown by FSU defensive lineman Mario Edwards Jr.
A crowd of 83,428 packed Memorial Stadium at kickoff, but by the time the final seconds ran off the clock the stands were empty – with the notable exception of Tomahawk-chopping FSU fans clad garnet and gold.
Their arms are going to be sore tomorrow …
The thrashing – which evoked memories of Clemson’s painful 2012 Orange Bowl loss to West Virginia – gives Florida State the inside track on the ACC Atlantic division and keeps head coach Jimbo Fisher’s team at the forefront of the national championship conversation.
Clemson? Not so much …
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You’re an asshole, FITS.
How’s that?
No worries, Sic…SCBlues is just mad ’cause he bet his EBT card on the game.
TBG bet the reservation, the double-wide AND the kibbutz….
…on the Vols!!!
I went in a little lighter. I bet the arrow, the fat drunk lady, and the bagel…
I bet…the fat drunk lady…
Z-TAC, YOU LOST TBG’s WIFE on a FOOTBALL BET?
Thanks.
No, No — he WON the wife!
Either way, TBG’s good. : )
Ha! Ha! Self-effacing humor is a very good personality trait. Will could learn from you…
Uh-huh. I don’t even know what an EBT card is dipshit – but you sure seem to be familiar. Get back to panhandling down in Columbia where you belong.
SCBlues look “EBT card” up. You are so eloquent (look up “eloquent” as well, we’ll wait.)
Anon – Here is something for you to look up – look up your asshole (if you can see past what I am sure are your stupendous hemorrhoids) and take a peek at your brains – as you’ve obviously got shit for brains. And by the way Shit-For-Brains – who is the “we” that you think you speak for? All the turds or what?
SCBlues, the “we” of whom I speak are the people reading this blog that can make their point without resorting to the use of profanity. The world is laughing at you, not with you.
LMFAO – Oh Anon – the fact that you think you speak for everyone – even the world – speaks volumes about you. You might want to think twice before you start slinging your insults, asshole. By the way, did you look up what I asked you to? Was it eloquent, asshole?
SCBlues, “the world is laughing at you, not with you”, is merely an observation. I don’t speak for the world, just the people that can make their point without resorting to the use of vial profanity.
Have a good night, SCBlues, and I hope you dream of puppies and unicorns…
…vial profanity.
Best thing since bottled beer.
LOL! Sic needs to bring back the edit button!
LOL – for what! You are just too stupid to know the difference between vial and vile – that wasn’t a typo – what would the edit button do for you, dildo? And did you look up what I asked you to? Was it eloquent? LMFAO
SCBlues finds your very existence repugnant. Because SCBlues is a masochist, it will continue to come here to tell you that and bitch to everyone here every time your report a reality it doesn’t like.
SCBlues may be crazy if you don’t define a masochist as such.
Dr. Dolittle – maybe you ought to stick with talking to the animals, dipshit
Where is your article on yesterday’s Gamecocks game, asshole?
You are an idiot. We had almost a week of non-stop Clowney bashing. Turn about is fair play.
Do you even have a brain, OGOB? So you think it is “fair” that FITS only “reports” on one team’s loss? You’re an f’ing imbecile.
Wow. Someone has their panties in a wad. Considering this was “the Greatest Game in the History of Mankind, er, the ACC,” I think Clemson’s blowout loss was a much bigger story.
Guess what, FITS didn’t run a story about our similar trouncing of Arkansas last week.
You are truly an idiot — and that’s saying something for this board.
And the funny thing about it OGOB, is that I am NOT even a partisan Clemson fan. I’ve stated on this forum repeatedly that I support all SC schools – especially when they are playing an out-of-state school. I hated to see Clemson lose AND I HATED TO SEE USC LOSE!! Got it, OBOG? I think FITS is an asshole (well, I think that for lots of reasons) because of the “Chopped Into Oblivion” title to the article. Sad that you are such a rabid Gamecocks fan – and you think I have my panties in a wad – read your own posts, fool! You are an f’ing imbecile – and, well, that is not really saying much for this board – but you are one anyway.
SCBlues “…I have my panties in a wad…”
So, SCBlues is a CROSSDRESSER! LOL!
Calm down everyone, SCBlues is just another OBAMA supporter.
uh-huh. And I knew that was the reason you were following me around on this thread about Clemson targeting me. You Obama Haters just don’t stop do you? And apparently ain’t even bright enough to keep it a secret.
SCBlues , have you been using your “Obama Phone” to post here? “…ain’t even bright enough…” SMH!
Anon – did you drink from that vial [sic] of profanity you were talking about?? Be careful now asshole – don’t want to be drinking any of that profanity! LMFAO Still such a pathetic Obama Hater that you have to follow me around on a “sports thread” displaying your hatred of President Obama?? You are a pathetic loser. Did you look up what I asked you to? Was it eloquent?
SCBlues, you win the Internet. Now post again so you can have the last word, Monkey Boy.
Anon – Oooh – somebody gonna go pout now ’cause they got their clock cleaned . . . is that “we” and “the world” that thinks I won, dumbass?? Were you and yours and the world able to figure out the difference between vile and vial?? LMFAO Before you start preaching to others to “look up” things you’d do well to look some stuff up yourself, dumbass!! Please keep posting – it just gets better and better dumbass!! LMFAO
SC Blues is just mad at you because he has been to several Columbia bookstores and not only do they not have your book on your affair with Haley, they say there has never been one.
Is that a step above or a step below a “zero talent ass-clown?” I get tired of typing all that out. Henceforth, I shall call myself Z-TAC.
Z-TAC
GG gotst himself an urban nickname!
….or a military industrial police complex acronym.
“or a military industrial police complex acronym”
Maybe one day he’ll have the ‘fortune’ of having it barcoded and laser marked on his forearm by our masters.
Whew! At first I read “foreskin” not “forearm.”
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Now say it all in 10 seconds flat and don’t stumble over the genital warts…
I hate FSU and Clemson so much, I’m always happy when they play because I know some one has to lose, and to so in such a spectacular fashion…thanks tigers!
Ahh.. reminds me of any time SEC teams play each other.
Jealous much brah?
What no story yet on the Carolina win? Oh wait…
Oh it will come, but getting your ass handed to you in your house when you are #3 in the country is more news worthy compared to a #11 team losing on the road by 1 point. In fact, you could jumble all the ranks after 5 and no one would even notice.
Clemson gets embarrassed again on national tv…at least you’re consistent
while you were sleeping FSU scored again and Tajh got into more gambling debt.
“while you were sleeping FSU scored again”
Does that mean another former USC player will suck start a shotgun again?
Did Clemson embarrass themselves against Georgia… you know that team that beat USC? Clemson lost to a top 5 team, USC lost to an unranked team.
To say Clemson “lost”, is a rather kind analysis, don’t you think?
Wow. How classy. A joke about guys committing suicide.
Clemson beat Georgia when it was ranked high. Where is Georgia now? Doesn’t help our picture much that we lost to UGa, but again, where are they now?
Hey it happens everytime someone states “XXXX just scored again”. The next day we read about some former USC player blowing his brains out.
I believe Georgia is still west of South Carolina… or it was the last time I checked. What do I care, that state sucks worse than South Carolina.
What a disgusting POS you are to make fun of someone’s suicide. It was when Anthony Downs from Clemson tried it and sad when Kenny did it. Talk about a lack of perspective. Were you the type that cheered when Lattimore was injured?
you mean that UGA team that is no longer in the Top 25 that you all squeezed by at home after giving up 600 yards. USC 2 losses came on the road in hostile environments. And they should have won both, but alas they did not, but CU got their asses whipped 3x to Sunday on their home field in front of a national crowd. They put up 7 freaking points until the waning minute when FSU decided to suit up the scout team that had travelled. It proves that Clemson, as usual got hyped after UGA, but then after the BIG wins versus perennial powers SC State and Wake, they believed it themselves. NC State and BC showed teams how to beat CU, they just didn’t have the talent to do it. The Cock’s will beat a top 10 team…on the road this week and win out to be back in the Top 10 for the annual beatdown of Dabo and Company in November, keeping the nation’s longest home winning streak in tact. Question is where will CU be? Likely an unexpected loss on the way. Enjoy the bus ride back from Memorial Stadium.
Ahh, I know you want a paragraph to go along with your rant, but I’ll just put it this way, “No”.
That reads like an awful lot of excuses and redirection for losing two games.
Kind of like when Clemson was #2 in the county and on their way to a possible National Championship game when they got KO’d by Navy….oh wait…
So you have to go back 29 years to find something that compares to Clemson’s humiliation Saturday, which, in terms of score was almost as bad as the humiliation in the bowl a few years back? OK.
Wow. I am stung by such a cunning riposte.
63-17.
I am stunned that you can’t get your head out of your ass. It must be that plank in your eye.
Oh no…One only has to go back to 2010 When Auburn beat that Gamecock ass 56-17. Or even back to 2008 a 56-6 beatdown at the hands of Florida. Or the 2005 48-7 beating again, by Auburn. And I’ll stop in 2003 with the complete boo cokying of the Cocks by Clemson, 63-17.
And didn’t USC lose to an UNRANKED Tn. team this weekend?
*TBG assumes that the statute of limitations has run out*
The first and only one of a handful of times TBG placed a bet with a bookie. Won $100 that day!!
Sakerlina was “Clemsoning” decades before it became cool.
Too bad there’s no asterisk next to the “W” or “L” column to show all that, huh?
4-bomb. That is all.
Still ranked in the top 10. I guess that is Sic Willie’s definition of oblivion. Then what must be Carl’s Jr’s ranking?
I don’t think anyone but you gets this Carls Jr comment. You tried to explain it to me but I can’t remember what the reference was about because it was so unfunny and stupid. Maybe we just like the Carls jr four-for-the price of one special.
Cling to that ranking. It’ll make you feel better.
I does. how does that butt hurt of yours feel?
Your tears are delicious.
4 in a row is nice, but a fifth would be the cherry on top. I’ll wait to see if they can pull that off this season. :P
Middle finger. That is all.
So do you dislike Clemson that much or are you bothered by the fact that Dabo and Haley text each other which leaves you with little more than a piece of paper which you are so quick to quote from where you testified to committing adultery with her?
I bet your eagerness to quote from that statement goes over really well around the house huh?
Weekend salvaged. Bet it’s so quiet in the upstate you could hear a pin drop. Come on 5 in a row!
Bet it’s so quiet in the upstate you could hear a pin drop.
Quiet enough to hear strains of “Rocky Top” wafting over the mountains from the northwest….
I heard Dabo crying as his diaper was getting changed
I’d love to see FSU play USC in a bowl game. I believe this would be the last straw for the Ol’ Ball Sack.
USC has a great… marching band.
Maybe the Cocks will let the band play against Clem this year.
Good enough to beat Clem School of farming 4 years in a row.
Like the Clemson players are farmers, just like the USC players are a bunch of pastel dressed frat boys. 90% of both teams are inner-city thugs who likely wouldn’t be accepted by either school if it weren’t for their football skills.
That happened one time before. Not a pretty sight for USC.
Must have been a while back.
Teeheehee, you just made a funny didn’t you?!
Even being a Clemson fan, I will admit last night was embarrassing. All the hype around this Clemson team was definitely overdone and we got exposed.
In defense of both teams, Clemson wasn’t overrated FSU is just that good. However, you guys did look rattled on your own field. Ironically, I think the noise and intensity of the game seemed to get to Clemson more than the visiting team.
Clemson was #3 in the Country. They were very much overrated.
USC was ranked #9, Tennessee wasn’t even in the radar of any poll.
It’s the definition of overrated when you’re ranked number 3 based on beating only 1 decent team.
TBG’s postgame thoughts, as expressed by Jim Mora, 17 years ago:
Diddley Poo
Gee, isn’t that sort of harsh? EVEN IF IT IS TRUE!! (damn!)
The truth is that Sic Willie didn’t give us a place to post our pre-game predictions this week. Shifty’s Magik Round Dice would have given the Gamecocks the win.
This game proved the old adage-“Offense sells tickets, but defense wins games.”
For all the dirt peckers crowing about this, I ask one question. What would FSU have done to USC? I bet the score would be the same or worse.
We haven’t lost at home in a while, go check the nations longest home winning streaks… They beat you down in your own stadium…
How’s that road record been lately?
Pretty good against Clem.
What about everyone else?
Well, you got my curiosity up Jr. Since 2003, and including games played this year, USC has had 16 regular season road losses. Clemson has had 24 regular season losses on the road during the same period. So, USC has averaged less than two road losses a year for the last ten years. So there’s your answer.
Correction. I apologize. I think USC has lost 22. It’s late and my eyes are fading. Anyway, Better than Clemson. 16 would have been pretty damned good!!
I have heard getting old sucks, that eyesight is the second thing to go.
4-bomb.
F-Bomb
For what it’s worth, I’m not a fan of any SC school, so put that tater back in your pocket.
Will keeps his ‘taters in the back of his BVDs.
Those aren’t taters, either.
Lol. After last night I believe you. Are you a Bama fan now?
Nope, another team of just a bunch of inner-city thugs who couldn’t get into community college on their academic merit.
That’s not a tater.
He’s just happy to see ya?
I guess at this point in your season that is all you have. Only 6 more spots and you are out of the rankings altogether.
It’s also all Clemson has. After getting the brakes beat off by FSU, Clemson will not make the ACCCG. Sorry Brah.
If my aunt had nuts she’d be my uncle. You got walked by a freshmen on your home field. Embarassed on national TV. They could’ve gone all WVU on you, but I think Jimbo backed off the gas a little.
How much more fun would this have been if we had managed to beat the Viles?
Back in Barlow Bend, Alabama, we were taught that if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass. You must be from Georgia.
Oregon would get their bills handed to them by Alabama. FSU is the biggest threat that Alabama may never face. If I’m Alabama, I would hope Oregon keeps winning.
No need for histrionics here.Florida State is a better team than Clemson as evidenced by this one sided win.They are also a better team than South Carolina.
Both Clemson and. South Carolina will likely lose at least one other game before their showdown?Neither will likely be ranked in the Top Ten at the end of the season.
They are both good teams,but “great” teams?Legitimate national Championship contenders?No.
“This is our time.” ;)
I heard that the FSU played all of their players and, by the end of the game, were letting their band members suit up and play. I could have sworn that I saw a dude with a trombone sack the Clemson QB.
edit “FSU coaches”. Damn, I wish they’d bring back the edit function.
— the “edit” button keeps appearing and disappearing
I told you. Wait til after the primary and Mace will be back to fix all of Sic Willie’s screw ups.
I told you that disqus is wonky as hell
Karl, you made me look up “wonky” in the dictionary
Anyone know what time Spurrier’s tee time was this morning? The only reason he’s sticking around is he knows if he leaves his son will be without a job.
Looks like Dabo’s playing peek-a-boo with the referee…
That is a good one!! LOL
I was disappointed watching the game. Way too many screw ups, and the team simply did not perform like we know they can. They can’t afford to show up on the field and have a terrible day against a team that is just as good as their best day. It really is a shame that this is how they take their first loss of the season. All they can do now is get hungry for more wins and put it behind them.
Personally, I want them at their strongest when they play the Gamecocks. No excuses, put it all on the field, and let the best team win. Same for both teams in their bowl games.
Thanks to all for another round of reasoned,
measured, thoughtful and stimulating reactions to an article about college
sports in South Carolina. Although CNSYD’s bleats were even less compelling or
entertaining than usual – which is saying alot – we can be thankful that for
once he didn’t digress to wistful talk about little boys.
No doubt about it we (Clemson) were killed. Just need to learn from it and move on. Clemson folks, don’t even let the SCAR fans draw you in.
Wait a minute>>>>>>>>
Yes, Florida State has scored again, and at the other end of the field West Virginia just keeps on scoring. It’s getting ridiculous. WV has over 1000 points to only 200 for FSU.
Can FSU catch WV only time will tell.
Clemson has left the building.
Both USC and clemtucky stunk! But….one for the thumb…here kitty kitty. I hand it to dork Bo. he didn’t blame spurrier for the loss.