We’ve heard it all season: Clemson football hasn’t played anybody.
Just scroll through Twitter and you’ll get your fill. There’s a narrative among College Football fans that the Clemson football program gets 13 ‘tune-up’ games each year before the start of the playoff.
Somehow, that gives the Tigers an unfair advantage when the postseason comes around. We’ve heard the same tired narrative since Clemson obliterated Alabama 44-16 in last season’s National Championship.
While it’s fair to say the ACC is down, two things are not fair:
- To act as if it’s Clemson fault that the conference is bad
- To act as if the conference is that much worse than other conferences around the nation
It’s become the popular trend to make fun of the ACC and pretend that is somehow discredits Clemson football.