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00:00Clemson Joe went on a streak where they won six consecutive ACC championships entering
00:082021 and they made the college football playoff each and every year.
00:13Down year in 2021, bounce back with an ACC title in 2022, make that seven of eight.
00:19Last year, one of the worst under Dabo Sweeney.
00:22Four ACC losses.
00:24How do you expect Clemson to bounce back?
00:25Well, in a big way, it's got to be Cade Klubnik.
00:28Last year, inconsistent, 19 touchdowns, nine interceptions.
00:31Go back to that game in Death Valley against Florida State.
00:34He held the football too long.
00:35That was a 14-point turnaround that allowed the Seminoles to win it in Death Valley in
00:40overtime.
00:41You look at the stats, 74-7 prior to last year Clemson was against ACC opponents.
00:47They lost four games, started right from week one where they lost as a double-digit favorite
00:52on the road to Duke.
00:53They need to step up in a big way.
00:56But again, the schedule starts fast.
00:57They have to give their best effort against the top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs, 13-and-a-half
01:02point dog already.
01:03They're playing with house money.
01:05If somehow, someway, Ben, they could strike the upset, they're a legitimate top 10 team
01:09automatically and then their college football playoff odds go from plus 205 to probably
01:15negative.
01:1613-and-a-half point dog in the opener against the Dogs.
01:19That's the first time Clemson had more than two conference losses in ACC play a season
01:25ago.
01:26Since 2010, that was year number two under Dabo Sweeney.
01:30Quickly here, Joe, Miami.
01:31Big chest Mario Cristobal.
01:33There is a thought from an optimistic odds perspective that Miami this year in year three
01:38under Cristobal can recreate the success of Sark last year in year three in Austin.
01:43But I take it you're not buying.
01:44I'm not buying yet.
01:45We saw this with D'Eric King a couple years ago.
01:47Sam Ward is a legitimate playmaker, over 3,000 yards, leading Washington State two
01:52years ago to a bowl game.
01:54But again, it's the consistency on the defensive side of the ball, not physical, and that falls
01:58on Mario Cristobal.
02:00I need to see it before I believe it.
02:02Just six and seven in his two years as the head coach in South Florida.
02:07Two teams to keep an eye on within the ACC, Louisville, like Joe mentioned, and Virginia
02:11Tech.
02:12We're going to be seeing starters at the power conference level in all of college football.