There was not much noise. Everyone was quiet and lost in their thoughts, including running back C.J. Spiller.
Just a few hours earlier back in Winston-Salem, N.C., he and his Clemson teammates suffered one of their most embarrassing losses of their college careers. Wake Forest, who was undermanned and nowhere near as talented as a Tigers’ team that started the season ranked No. 9 in the country and the media’s pick to win the Atlantic Coast Conference for the first time in 17 years, beat the them 12-7 on Thursday night at Groves Stadium.
“For me it sucked because I got hurt during that game,” Spiller recalled.