Lawrence: Firing Up the ROY Bus is 'Awesome'

CLEMSON— Trevor Lawrence had a moment before the Tigers took the field against the Florida State Seminoles to share his heart. And once again show that he is the undisputed leader of not just the Tiger offense, but the entire team.

"Coach Swinney does some random things in meetings, like he'll ask people if they got anything to say, so we had a couple guys stand up," Lawrence said. "I just told the guys, you know don't waste a day. We have, at most, three months of this season left and you're going to look back, and if you didn't do all the things you could have done, you're going to have some regrets. That's the thing I wanted to tell them, is don't waste a day, you know in three months you'll get a break, you can just relax and kind of rethink everything, but now let's just go to work and take every step and take advantage of everything we have.

"We got to the top of the mountain last year and starting over this year, ranked No. 1 preseason, then to have a close game, we didn't play great so I can see why we got moved, but it's just more fuel to the fire, so we need to bring back the ROY bus, it's awesome."

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The Tigers heeded the words of their leader, as they put together their best performance of the season.

Against the Seminoles, the Tigers amassed 552 yards of offense and held the Seminoles to only 253 yards of offense. A product of the best week of preparation they have had this season.

"This was definitely one of the best weeks, especially since it was two weeks kind of, so I feel like every practice was good," Lawrence said. "but I don't think we had a practice where we were like, "uh, don't think that was our best day," so we had really good practices."

If Saturday, which saw the South Carolina Gamecocks go to Georgia and knock off the No. 3 Bulldogs, showed the Tigers anything it was that you cannot cheat the game or take any game for granted.

"It's like I said with North Carolina," Lawrence said. "Every team has good players, they have coaches that are full-time that they pay a lot of money to try to win games, so you can't just go into a game expecting to win. I didn't see the game, the second half or anything like that, you can't take teams for granted, especially teams like South Carolina."

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