Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
I don't think anyone saw that and thought the #1 ranking meant there was no doubt Clemson's D was the best in the country.

It is very good, and I thought did as good a job as possible of limiting LSU at times last night. Was it the best in the country? There's no way to know that. But LSU lit everybody up this year, and Clemson actually did a good job of limiting Ohio State when nobody else could.
1st quarter alone what I saw was LSU limiting LSU. Burrow completes a 50 yd pass to Moss but is called back because a lineman wandered a little too far. Chase drops two sure first downs with one of them being a crucial third down conversion. Those were three drives within the first 10 minutes that LSU stopped themselves. I think you may be giving Clemson a little too much credit. They did about as well as you could have done vs OSU given how OSU had completely dominated a much better schedule than Clemson but my point was that when Clemson actually faced competition their defensive statistics were out the window.