Shakin The Southland: Second Half Collapse Dooms Tigers

That’s how Clemson blog Shakin The Southland’s post-game story starts and its apt. When the team went into the locker room at the half up 47-27, everything looked great. What happened?

…Clemson came back out totally flat. Illinois puts up a 28-4 run, with good zone defense and superior effort, then Clemson decides to start playing again to make it a ballgame, but the momentum was already gone. This has to be the worst loss of Purnell’s time at Clemson. Its certainly the worst performance I’ve seen one of his teams put out there in several years.