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Harper emerges from backup role to become history-making QB

By Chris Low
ESPN.com

Thursday, November 15, 2007

For a guy who has seemingly lived on the hot seat the past few years, Clemson's Tommy Bowden had to be a little queasy coming into this season. Who wouldn't be? The restlessness among fans in Tiger Town had reached a tipping point under Bowden, his quarterback had thrown all of 22 mop-up passes during his college career, and his offensive line was replacing four of five starters. Bowden conceded this summer that he'd never gone into a preseason "this inexperienced" at the quarterback posit ...

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