Clemson at Georgia Tech Prediction For Week 1

Odds, best bets and analysis for this college football matchup

By Matthew Horner – Aug 5, 2022, 1:05am

People literally seem to forget that Clemson won double-digit games last season. The bar has been set so unreasonably high under Dabo Swinney that 10-3 seems like a terrible disappointment, and it is when you compare it to how they have been doing during the duration of his tenure with the Tigers. The same argument will continue to be made very single year against Clemson , which is that they get a break of playing an ACC schedule and not being in the SEC. I don't know about you, but I think the Tigers have more than proven themselves in the College Football Playoffs. My point is, stop bashing this team. No, they didn't win the national championship. They also didn't go to the College Football Playoff, and didn't win the ACC title. Clemson lost three games. Seriously, calm down.

They had a double-digit win season for the 11th straight season, which maybe isn't quite Alabama, but it's very hard to argue that kind of success. The team struggled on offense, suffered a slew of injuries to its NFL-caliber defensive line, finished dead last in the ACC in passing efficiency, second-to-last in total offense, and yet they still finished with 10 wins. The three losses were against the eventual national champion Georgia, a road game against the eventual ACC champion Pitt, and a double-ov ertime road loss to one of the league's best teams in NC State.

If Clemson can be just okay on offense, they are a College Football Playoff and ACC Championship team again, and 2021 will be put in the rear-view mirror.
  
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