David Pollack certainly did not expect Clemson to go 7-6 in 2025.
Clemson came into this season having won the 2024 ACC Championship, its eighth conference title in 10 years. The Tigers were fresh off a College Football Playoff appearance in 2024, entered this season ranked No. 4 in the AP Poll and were one of the media darlings of the offseason, with multiple national analysts even picking Dabo Swinney’s team to win the national title.
Pollack, the ex-ESPN analyst and former Georgia/NFL linebacker, is one of those analysts who was “all in” on Clemson in the preseason and picked the Tigers to win it all.