All are from the 1st, 3rd and 4th quarters:
First downs: Clemson 14, Notre Dame 14
Total yards: Clemson 262, Notre Dame 192
Score: Clemson 10, Notre Dame 3
The difference between these three quarters and the second quarter is stark. Did the loss of one player - a cornerback - really make that much of a difference? Obviously, we'll never know and Clemson might have found another way to score, but I believe this shows Notre Dame isn't that far off...and there's no way Clemson wins by 27. I'm not going to argue that the offense wasn't poor - it was horrendous - but overall, Clemson's offense was pretty impotent for the most part, too, when Love was in.
This is more of a case that we need to be able to replace players adequately when they get hurt and not miss a beat, as Clemson did with Dexter Lawrence.