Dabo after BC blowout: Clemson’s better now than a year ago

He threw for a career-high 300 yards and three touchdowns against Wake Forest, which had arguably been the best defense they have been up against before traveling to Clemson.

After throwing nine touchdown passes in the first four games of the season, Watson has nine touchdown passes in the past 6 1/2 quarters against two of the top-20 defenses in the country in Louisville and Boston College. With the win in hand, Tiger reserves began to see playing time and Tyshon Dye scored on a 3-yard run early in the fourth quarter.

The architect of the demolition was junior quarterback Deshaun Watson, who has accounted for 572 yards and nine touchdowns against the Cardinals, ranked No. 3 at the time, and the Eagles. In the first half alone, Watson completed 4-of-4 passing for 128 yards and two touchdowns against BC’s blitzes. North Carolina or Miami or some other worthy adversary could make Clemson’s potential trip to the College Football Playoff a hard proposition even if it continues to cruise toward the ACC title game. But on Friday night against Boston College, 16 teams including the San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns will be lining the press box of Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

“Nobody’s going to start the season off at their best”, Gallman said.

Offense: Clemson. Both units are strong, but the edge goes to the Tigers because of Watson.

No. 4 MI and No. 5 Houston also can become bowl eligible on Saturday, but Jim Harbaugh and Tom Herman need their teams to reach bowl games that will require more than six wins for them to qualify for bowl bonuses. It was the heaviest home defeat for Boston College during Steve Addazio’s tenure, and their second straight blowout loss in ACC play. Boston College followed its ugly loss to the Hokies with consecutive non-conference victories, including a 35-3 rout of Buffalo on Saturday. The 229-pound sophomore leads the team in rushing (295 yards) and touchdowns (five), but is averaging only 3.4 yards per carry. The win moved the Tigers to 6-0 on the season, while dropping the Eagles to 3-3.

Crossan, who had 152 yards on the ground, ripped off runs of 7, 5, 13 and 30 to get the ball to Elon’s 25.

BC took an early lead on a 21-yard field goal.

Third-ranked Clemson cranked out 499 yards in big chunks of offense during its most explosive performance to date on Friday. “But I thought we played pretty spirited in the first half”. The college football odds for the game have the Tigers listed as a huge favorite to pick up the win in this one.

But Clemson took over the first half and the rest of the game from there.

On Friday morning, the Florida State football team boarded team buses, headed for the Tallahassee airport and boarded flights bound for Fort Lauderdale. Through the first six games, however, it is clear that Clemson is doing just fine offensively. Even though they did struggle against Virginia Tech a few weeks back in a 49-0 beat down.