If you’re a team in the ACC that wants to make a splash nationally, you have to go through Clemson.
Clemson has won five consecutive ACC Championships and has appeared in the College Football Playoff each of the last five seasons, a run that reminds college football analyst and former Clemson head coach Tommy Bowden of the run Florida State had in the ’90s and 2000s.
“It just reminds me so much of '99, when I came to Clemson, with what Florida State had done,” Bowden said. “They had 14 top-five finishes and then won the ACC so many times in a row.