Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton react to the Bulldogs’ 34-3 win over the Tigers and discuss the state of Clemson’s program. Subscribe to the “College Football Power Hour” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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In a defensive shootout in the first half where points and yards in offense was kind of hard to come by.
Georgia figured things out in the short passing game late in the first half and Georgia takes down Clemson 34 to 3 to kick off.
Week one fits some of your initial reactions from this game.
Now, this proves that Clemson is no longer part of the elite in college football and that’s pretty basic because what do we see week one for programs that aren’t at that level at halftime?
Second half, they just can’t keep up anymore.
And that’s exactly what happened here.
Georgia in the second half came out with the Thunder of the Gods and they showed that they are one of the nation’s elite programs.
And Clemson showed that they’re one of the pretty good programs.
They could keep it close for a half, they can’t keep it close for a second half.
We saw that repeatedly throughout the course of week one.
We’re just not used to seeing that from Clemson.
This is a reminder Caroline that we to recalibrate what we think of where that program is moving forward to me this year in college football, I heard a lot of talk before the game about how Clemson’s quote unquote demise.
If you want to use that word is maybe a little bit over exaggerated.
I think what we saw on the field on Saturday was maybe that demise actually isn’t over exaggerated.
Look at the two wide receivers that scored touchdowns for Georgia today, two wide receivers that were transfers into Georgia this season.
So I think it just goes to show that when you ignore the portal entirety, everybody else starts to…
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