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Klubnik's shocking mid-season turnaround stuns ESPN

Related Topics: Cade Klubnik, Bill Connelly

It may be too little, too late to save Clemson's "massively disappointing" season, but Cade Klubnik has finally arrived.

After a disastrous start that saw the Tigers' national title hopes evaporate before Halloween, the senior quarterback has engineered one of the most dramatic mid-season turnarounds in college football. His surge has been so significant that it's forcing national analysts to take notice, with ESPN pushing him up a staggering 26 spots to No. 28 in their new quarterback power rankings.

A Tale of Two Seasons

ESPN's Bill Connelly, who has been tracking the shift, summed it up perfectly: “in October, Cade Klubnik officially became Cade Klubnik again.