On3’s Ari Wasserman planted a bold flag this week with his 10 more bold predictions for the 2025 college football season. Wasserman is high on Clemson and predicted that they will beat LSU in Week 1 and go wire-to-wire undefeated to the CFP. He frames it as a reversal on Dabo Swinney skepticism and as the surest conference pick on the board.
"There have been people who have thought Swinney was cooked at Clemson. I’m one of them. I’ve written time and time again over the course of the past few seasons that Swinney’s stubbornness in his refusal to go all-in on the transfer portal is coaching malpractice.