3 Observations

I believe this is what the College Football Playoff outcome versus Clemson last year would have looked like if not for two factors.

This outcome at Georgia was a combination of all the other gut-wrenching near misses in the last six seasons versus College Football Playoff opposition: 31-27 at Florida State in 2014, 24-22 at Clemson in 2015 and 20-19 versus Georgia in 2017. In each situation, there was an opportunity to win or go into overtime on the final series.

But the playoff game last December in Clemson particularly comes to mind because of two reasons.