But, your points on Estime and the run game in general are way off. The "Estime was averaging 8 yards per tote" is meaningless in the greater context of the game. To use it to describe how effective our run game was is disingenuous at best. He didn't "average" near that much against Clemson. Did our run game in the first half against Navy look in the same universe as the Clemson game?
We also did not abandon the run in the second half. Our first 2 possessions included 4 runs and 2 passes. And in the 2nd possession we ran it on first down.
If you want to say we abandoned the run in the 4th quarter, I agree with you. But to claim our meltdown in the 2nd half was due to us going away from the first half game plan, I don't agree. We stuck with it through 3 quarters and all of the sudden it's 35-24 at the start of the fourth quarter.