The 2019 Clemson football team is 11-0 and on its way to potentially completing another perfect regular season.
Despite the Tigers’ success and current 26-game winning streak, we have heard fans week-after-week use one simple phrase when talking about Clemson football: “Last year doesn’t matter.”
Fans and analysts alike have used that phrase as a discredit attempt to Clemson and its weak schedule. First, they were yelling about how the Tigers shouldn’t be No. 1 in the nation. Next, they were saying that Clemson shouldn’t be in the top-four. Now that many programs have lost and it’s clear that Clemson football is a top-four team, the argument has changed to ‘we don’t really know who Clemson is,’ and ‘the Tigers won’t be able to compete against the likes of LSU and Ohio State.