Gaylord Hotel Music City Bowl

Clemson - 21

Kentucky - 13

If you asked me yesterday around 2 hours before the game "Is Clemson going to win?" my answer would have been:

"No, not only are they not going to win, but they are going to get stomped. Just like they did at the last Music City Bowl we went to where we played none other than Kentucky."


But we did win. I won't try to argue that it was pretty or that Clemson looked great.

But we won. Many thanks to the Clemson defense, CJ Spiller, and Dabo.

Too bad The Saints couldn't pull out a win against Tampa yesterday. That's all I'm going to say about that.

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Tigers for a win!

Leave it to the Tigers to jerk us around this afternoon against Miami.

We've been waiting for a suspenseful game - but really Tigers? Was that necessary?

We beat The U, in Miami, in OT in 2004.

I was there. It was amazing.

This year - it was almost as amazing.

But there's nothing quite like being there, feeling the electricity in the air

and having to wait for the stands to clear so you know it's safe to go back to the bus.

:)

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Free at last!

...Clemson football, that is. Tommy Bowden resigned (or got fired??) today. I think everyone expected to see this at the end of the season. About this time every year all of the IPTAY and Clemson Alumni start yelling that Bowden should get the ax because he is such a sorry coach. This season? Every game he stands on the sideline looking like someone just ran over his dog. And what coach takes their headset off in the last 4 minutes of the football game when you're losing and you have possession of the football? What the heck?

I didn't believe it until ESPN posted on their website. I never thought he would get the boot in the middle of the season. Even the QB, Harper, who got benched after the loss to Wake (to a freshman, no less) said that Bowden got what he deserved. Sounds like Harper is a little bit bitter. Word on the street is he is getting $4 million to leave. If I got $4 million dollars to leave, I wouldn't even want a box to clean out my office. I would take the check and walk out the door.

My favorite part of this whole thing? The interim coach's name is "Dabo". Hey, Dabo! ...can't wait to hear that over the loadspeakers at the game.

Anyway...check out the ESPN article.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3641028

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