It wasn’t pretty — and it took more than five hours of real time — but No. 6 Clemson outlasted Georgia Tech, 14-8, to win its ACC opener Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Here are four sequences that went a long way toward deciding the outcome, a turning point and a telling stat from the Tigers’ narrow escape.
- After scoring on their second possession of the game, the Tigers seemed poised to widen their lead early in the second quarter with one of their more promising drives of the opening half. Clemson converted three third downs and methodically moved 36 yards on 11 plays before D.