TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — While Clemson was celebrating one of its best wins from a margin of victory standpoint on Saturday, Florida State head coach Willie Taggart was ripping his team after the second-ranked Tigers routed his Seminoles, 59-10, at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla.
The 49-point victory by Clemson was the largest home defeat suffered by Florida State, surpassing a 44-point home loss to Southern Miss on Nov. 14, 1981. It also matched Florida State’s largest margin of defeat at any location in school history, equaling a 49-point loss at Florida in 1973.
“It’s the first time since I have been here where I felt like we had some guys that quit on our football team and that can’t be tolerated,” Taggart said afterward.