As a Clemson fan, I find these breakdowns kinda...off.
Notre Dame held Watson to 96 passing yards, yes. As to how that was managed, well, here's what Auburn needs to do to replicate this. 1) Line up in a Cover-3 nickel for most of the game, and dare Clemson to run underneath, on the theory that Clemson can't muscle up and run the football, and 2) park a Cat-1 hurricane over the stadium just before kickoff.
Deshaun Watson, apparently, does not throw well in hurricanes. So if you can just arrange for one to be over Jordan Hare around 9:00PM Saturday night, Auburn should be golden.
As for FSU...well, they're mutants. How they lost three games last year I will never understand. (Well, in their defense, their QB did play the bowl game against Houston on a broken ankle...after their backup, Everett Golson, had pouted his way out of town and quit the team.) But they had the athletes on the perimeter to be able to match up with Clemson on the outside. (The 'Noles really did have the best secondary in football, just a bunch of athletic freaks like Jalen Ramsey and Derwin James...their DC, Charles Kelly, is also their DB coach and has put together just a monster unit there) and while Clemson was getting some love getting TE Jordan Leggett matched up against LB's, mostly Clemson worked the body, pounding Wayne Gallman underneath until FSU finally went down.
