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Here's your host, Brandon Adam. We have told you before that the vibe around this game for Georgia against Clemson began the

2024 season, much different that would have been back in 2021.

Back then, it was Georgia that had something to prove.

Clemson had been where Georgia wanted to be.

It had been a perennial playoff team, what, six straight years of the college football

playoff?

A couple of national championships.

Clemson was one of just the real name brand teams in college football playoff. A couple of national championships. Clemson was one of just the real

name brand teams in college football. Georgia was facing the questions of could it get to Clemson's

level? When Georgia beat Clemson in Charlotte to begin the 2021 season, because of all of that,

the win was obviously a tremendous accomplishment for UGA and a resounding message that Georgia was ready to take a next step as a program.

Well, now, if there are big questions around this game, they probably rest a little bit more on the Clemson side than they do on the Georgia side because Clemson has certainly

seemed to regress from where it was back when it was a perennial playoff appearance team and a

multiple national champion. There's a lot of questions kind of looming here of, is this still the

same Clemson? Is this kind of what Clemson is? And for a lot of

Clemson fans, they'd obviously love to believe, yeah, we're still the same. We're the same as we've

always been. But if that is true, I think it's fair to ask. If Clemson is still Clemson, why are they

acting so weird?

And I don't know how closely you're paying attention to all of this.

But I would say there are a couple of sort of minor controversies, seemingly self-induced,

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