2024 College Football Preview: Can Clemson & Miami Bounce Back?

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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.