For the Kent State Golden Flashes, Saturday has the potential to be historic or historically painful as they travel to take on the Clemson Tigers in the opener for both teams. Clemson is fresh off their dethroning of Alabama in the College Football Playoff and for Tigers fans this is the first step to back-to-back titles for the ACC power. Kent State, on the other hand, is not even picked to contend for their division. So “underdog might not even be descriptive enough.
Best case scenario, Kent State uses a noon game with significant national eyeballs because of their opponent as a chance to get some traction for their program.