However, Dabo Swinney’s Tigers still have one big obstacle before entering that contest undefeated.
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According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, Clemson is favored on the road in this game, as the Tigers are getting odds of -8.5 points against the Yellow Jackets.
Coming into its ACC opener, Clemson (3-0) is the defending conference champion and expected to challenge again for a national title.
We will give you impact players, offensive style, defensive style, coaching names, records, film analysis and much more. “But we’re looking forward to it”. In 2015, Watson completed 21-of-30 passes for 265 yards and two touchdowns against the Yellow Jackets en route to a 43-34 win.
That all changed in Week 3 as the Tigers romped past Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) member South Carolina State, 59-0, on Saturday afternoon.
Georgia Tech has a stout defense that has allowed opponents to score just 10.3 points per game in victories over Boston College, Mercer and Vanderbilt.
Take a stroll down Memory Lane, Deshaun Watson, and welcome back to a football field near the ol’ stomping grounds. He partially tore his anterior cruciate ligament early in the game, though he wasn’t even hit on the play.
The Tigers (3-0) dominated every statistical category, but the most impressive may be that they outgained the Bulldogs 555-102 in total yards. “It was one of those weird things that happened”. “I thought I was going to be able to go back out there and play. Of course, it’s going to pop up in my mind, but it won’t be anything too serious”.
After helping lead Georgia Tech football to a convincing 38-7 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday, senior center Freddie Burden and freshman B-back Dedrick Mills were named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Offensive Lineman of the Week and co-Rookie of the Week, respectively, on Monday.
Yet the Tigers are don’t lack confidence. “He’s a great individual player, but they’ve got a lot of other great football players”.
Georgia Tech is averaging 397.7 yards per game, 257.3 of that on the ground. The team has been running the option effectively, and their drives have been long and sustained.
That will be answered this week.
A trip to Georgia Tech hasn’t gone well for Clemson in the past.
Watson, third in the Heisman Trophy voting a year ago, played his high school ball at Gainesville, about 45 minutes up the road from Georgia Tech. Coach Johnson went as far as to saying “We’ve got to see if we can line up and play with them”.
GEORGIA TECH: Cornerback Step Durham left the game with a thigh injury in the third quarter and did not return. The over/under total for the contest is listed at 57 points. “We don’t talk about a year ago, other than the fact that they beat the fool out of us”, Johnson told reporters. But he added, “I think we have the potential to get where we were in ’14”.
That is possible if quarterback Justin Thomas continues to play as he did in the win over the Commodores.
It was the longest pass of Justin Thomas’ 39-game career, eclipsing the 79-yarder he threw against Pittsburgh in 2014.
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“We always have, for night games in general, a really good atmosphere”, Johnson said. “It’s more athletic. And we’ve got the same quarterback”.
