Wake Forest at Winston-Salem, 10/9/08
My wife and I were traveling to Seattle the day of this game so I only got to watch about a half of it. It is stored on my DVR at home, so I planned to do the Game Notes next week after I got a chance to watch the whole thing. Of course, after the Tiger offense performed as they did, after Spiller went down, after we lost another offensive lineman, the prospect of watching the 12-7 defeat again was slightly nauseating. (BTW, it would have been fun to watch the defense, who played well except for one play, one drive. Unfortunately that was enough to lose the game given the offense’s pitiful showing.) And then, I was saved from the ordeal of having to watch it again. Because the details of this game became irrelevant about 11 AM, Monday, October 13. That’s when the media began to announce that Tommy Bowden had stepped down as Clemson coach. So there was something a lot more important to follow and to write about than another unexpected loss.