TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Clemson loaded the Ship. When the Tigers needed to pull away from the rocky shores of a close game Saturday night at Florida State, ...
The coaching staff is doing such a great job of putting us in a great position to win. 5 Clemson football](https://www.greenvilleonline.com/sports/clemson/) pulled away and then [held on to win, 34-28](https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/clemson/2022/10/16/takeaways-clemson-football-fsu-34-28-seminoles-analysis/69548008007/), at Doak Campbell Stadium. One play later, another touchdown, a 31-14 lead and Clemson was on its way to victory. Shipley carried had 9 yards on three carries in the first quarter. “They kind of force you to have to run the ball on them. His 53-yard run against Wake Forest was the Tigers’ longest play of the season until Saturday, when quarterback D.J.
D.J. Uiagalelei took Clemson's first offensive snap of the night, faked a handoff to Phil Mafah and threw to Will Shipley, who leaked out of the two-back ...
It allowed the Tigers to take a few knees to run out the final minute and change on their latest win. He totaled 48 yards on his receptions and finished with 121 yards on the ground, good for 6.1 yards per pop. Uiagalelei said that’s something he noticed in studying FSU on film during the week, and a running game that had averaged just 146 yards in the Tigers’ previous two games needed to be able to take advantage of that. That set up the Tigers’ fourth and final touchdown of the night. That often meant either an equal number of defenders for Clemson to block up front or even times where the Tigers had a numbers advantage in the box. The Seminoles came into the game with the ACC’s top pass defense (less than 175 yards allowed per game), often dropping more defenders into coverage and depending largely on their defensive line to slow down opponents’ run game.