The starting quarterback was benched and the team lost the ball four times, but still won. The headline is that, according to the coach.
It's got it?
Don't ask about it. The thing doesn't exist. Your imagination is depicted in a figment. At the end of "Animal House," Swinney stands in the middle of a crowd and yells "All is well!"
DJ Uiagalelei was hyping despite his struggles. The coach has spent the first seven weeks of the season dishing out one "I told you so" after another, including as recently as last week, when he called doubts of Uiagalelei "embarrassing."
When Uiagalelei coughed up his third turnover of the game midway through the third quarter, it was time for Swinney to go.
What's the reason? The move worked because the freshman could give the offense a boost. Three of the next four drives resulted in a score. His inspiration was more Rob Schneider in "The Waterboy" than Jeff Daniels in "Independence Day." A victory is a victory.
In the aftermath, Swinney assured fans that Uiagalelei is still the starter as the Tigers head into an off week with a chance to win the Atlantic Division title. They won't be playing another ranked opponent this year.
The quarterbacks were replaced in the second half of the game.
He is correct. The world is cold and callous, and so we must ask the bigger question: Is this team capable of winning a title?
The answer could be "Yes!" if this were 2020. We'd seen Clemson keep winning even when they were not doing as well as they could. The first national title of the campaign was won by the coach. The Tigers lost to Pitt because of a missed chip shot and only beat NC State due to a missed chip shot. No one needs to remember those regular-season struggles after Deshaun Watson found Hunter Renfrow in the back of the end zone in the title game.
Even though it finished with a 10-3 record, the vulnerability of Clemson was obvious. The wins were not decided by chance, but by determination. That is admirable, but not sustainable.
It took double overtime to get past Wake Forest and nearly gave up a large lead against Florida State. If not for Syracuse's decision to put Sean Tucker into witness protection on Saturday, there's a good chance that this might be more than 2020.
Is this question the same as the ones posed at Alabama or Michigan down the line?
Does that matter when they've already been beaten by Georgia and look like a clear top four team?
Brian Kelly would say that LSU sent the Rebels to Louisiana like a crawdad in a steam pot.
We are sold on Tennessee. We don't know if Alabama is an elite state. Georgia has been looking at humans over the last few weeks.
We'll find almost all the teams we want if we're nitpicking.
But the coach isn't making any big changes.
Only six teams left with a zero in the loss column, and only one of them is 1-8.
Mario Cristobal wanted to assure the public that Miami was serious about winning and didn't need any tricks to win. There is no more turnover chain.
It was a big mistake.
The turnover chain wasn't a stunt. The end times in Coral Gables have been signaled by its destruction.
The Hurricanes coughed up the football eight times in the Duke game.
There are eight It's times.
It would be easy to point out that Miami is a very bad football team. It would be like saying there are so many "Fast and Furious" movies because of Vin Diesel. The facts alone can't explain how much output there is.
Cristobal angered the football gods, and he must now go on a mythic quest, through corridors haunted by the ghosts of Al Golden and Randy Shannon, scale the unconquerable mountains of the Coastal Division and survive an epic freestyle battle with the Hurricanes.
The whole thing is being developed by the company.
There have been some rough moments for Ewers this year. The car was taken away. His shoulder was injured. He had to watch the whole game. He was at his lowest point on Saturday.
In Texas' loss at Oklahoma State, Ewers threw 19 of 49 passes.
ThePokes were playing with a battered offensive line, but Spencer Sanders still delivered some critical throws, tossing two touchdown, while Jaden Nixon showed he could run over Texas' defense wearing bedroom slippers
Jaden Nixon is literally too fast for his own shoes. pic.twitter.com/mtGP9UoQR1
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It was a big bounce-back win for Oklahoma State after they blew a late lead. The Cowboys are 6-1, and they have both the best and worst quarterbacks in the country.
After the Longhorns lost twice without Ewers earlier this season, Saturday's defeat can at least remove any linger "What if" debates and allow Texas to completely focus on keeping trick-or-treaters safe.
We understand if you didn't watch the end of the game. The punishment for stealing was watching that game. The final moments were just as bad as a game between two bad teams might suggest.
On fourth-and-19, Arizona State threw a desperation heave that appeared to be caught by Elijhah Badger to set up a game-winning field goal.
In the final seconds of the game, Arizona State's Emory Jones had a chance to set up a game-winning field goal, but he missed the kick.
The officials said that Badger had a toe out of bounds on the catch, which allowed them to overturn the call.
Liberty is 7-1 and we don't want to be the ones to bring it up.
We were all hoping that we could stop paying attention to the Flames because of the quarterback's departure. They've kept winning, including a 41-14 stomp of BYU on Saturday, thanks in part to a 213-yard performance from Dae Dae Hunter.
Liberty lost on a missed 2-point try.
Liberty has won with different quarterbacks.
Liberty is great.
Is it possible that Hugh Freeze is driven by the country's anger at him, like the Emperor in "Star Wars"? We assume that Palpatine would use Obi-Wan's social media accounts to complain about rebel criticisms as well. Even when he is kept down, there is no way to keep him down.
Flubbed chip shots costing teams a needed win on an almost weekly basis is the plague of College Kickers. The long-snappers tend to fly under the radar.
Grant Sands' Saturday is going to be remembered for a long time.
Against Montana State on Saturday, Sands snapped the football over the punter's head and out of the back of the end zone for a safety, giving the Bobcat's eight points.
Weber State surrendered four safeties on special teams snaps.
The Hurricanes have been favored to win four times. The Hurricanes lost to Duke on Saturday and have now lost in those games three times. Miami was a 25.5-point favorite to win against Middle Tennessee, a 10-point favorite to lose to Duke, and a four-point favorite to lose to North Carolina. The Hurricanes failed to cover a nine-point spread in their victory against Virginia Tech.
It was a perfect spot for the Tigers to fall behind Syracuse in the first half of the game. The Orange was -9 in the second half and the tigers were -13, but they were able to cover that number with ease. The coach is 11-2 against the second half spread in his career.
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