Having said all that...

Clemson's play calling and offense in general certainly did make a dramatic improvement from last year's. Even in the bowl game there was some plays that uncharacteristically (Harper) were not executed as they should have been. Good calls and good plays at least 3 maybe 4 overthrown balls that would have no doubt been touchdowns. I don't believe Auburn could have overcame even a two TD deficit much less 3.

So you could argue that he called a pretty decent game. I just hate he went away from it in the second half. If its open, you have to go back to it. Too many underneath passes in the second half in my opinion. Not just that the passes were underneath, that the receivers were not going down the field enough. This allowed Auburn to put the defense all on the line. Shutting down Spence's offense. We have two many good receivers not to send some of them down the field on every play. For one thing they are speed receivers and not blockers as you would need to run underneath plays consistently.

Harper didn't have a great game as you need to beat a good SEC team. I won't dog on the kid, you can't say enough how he went above and beyond this year. Hell, he threw the game winning pass perfectly against BC. It just got dropped.

Its easy to judge sitting where we are. Its not all doom and gloom as in my previous post.

I didn't get to watch many bowl games. I did see the Clemson game obviously. Georgia and Hawaii no surprise. Oklahoma West Va. no surprise. Michigan and Florida on the other hand big surprise. Florida just must have not come ready to play.