In the immediate aftermath of Clemson’s first regular-season loss in two years, the first player to emerge from the locker room was Wayne Gallman. He looked broken.
It was Gallman who’d failed, twice, to pick up a single yard necessary to ice the game for the Tigers, but it was more than that. After a year shuffled to a background role, those two runs were Gallman front and center, and he’d come up short.
“I was ready from right after the game,” Gallman said. “It’s always hard losing and the hardest thing to do was get over it and accept it and come back and do what we need to do.