The Clemson Tigers are essentially the most disappointing workforce within the 2025 season up to now throughout the Atlantic Coast Convention, and maybe nationally, but head coach Dabo Swinney is not dropping by the wayside.
Because the workforce’s head coach, he is presupposed to say that, and Swinney does have a observe file of success, successful two nationwide championships with Clemson.
On Tuesday, he harassed that his workforce, which is 1-3 total and tied for final within the ACC standings for now, will not quit.
September was a tough month for Clemson, which entered the 2025 marketing campaign at No. 4 within the preseason Related Press prime 25 ballot. The Tigers, which made the 12-team School Soccer Playoff a yr in the past, have been additionally tabbed as the favourite to repeat as ACC champs in 2025, in keeping with the league’s preseason media ballot.
But as Clemson prepares to journey to the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday afternoon in Week 6, the Tigers are 0-2 in convention competitors and their solely win this season is a lackluster 27-16 house victory over Troy.
Nonetheless, Swinney says the 2025 marketing campaign is much from over.Â
“We acquired an extended solution to go,” Swinney stated. “Why cannot we be the most popular workforce in America? Why not? There ain’t no give up. We have an extended solution to go. We’re simply attending to October.”
His final assertion is right. September is within the rear-view mirror, and it is a recent month, so to talk, for Clemson. The difficulty with Swinney’s feedback is that the Tigers have supplied no proof in 2025 to point out that they’re good workforce, a lot much less an elite one with a sensible shot at a nationwide title.
Granted, Clemson fell to ranked foes LSU and Georgia Tech by a mixed 10 factors. Nonetheless, Clemson additionally misplaced large, at house, to Syracuse, a workforce that’s at the moment 3-2 total and seemed dangerous final Saturday in a blowout setback to Duke.
Clemson is able to happening a run. The schedule is not simple, however it is not overly daunting, both. North Carolina, led by first-year head coach and NFL legend Invoice Belichick, hasn’t been good this season.
The Tigers get SMU, Duke and No. 18 Florida State at house. Clemson should journey to Boston School, Louisville and in-state rival South Carolina.
With out query, there are winnable video games in there for the Tigers, however being the “hottest workforce in America” is a stretch. Particularly as a result of getting into Week 6, Clemson is useless final within the ACC in scoring at 19.8 factors per sport.
The Tigers should take issues one sport at a time, and knocking off the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill could be an enormous increase to Clemson’s collective confidence degree.
