If winning every game was easy, more teams would do it.
With Clemson’s ACC Championship win over UNC and Iowa’s Big 10 title game loss to Michigan State, only the Tigers are undefeated among the 128 FBS teams.
Saturday’s win was No. 16 in a row for Clemson, which broke a 66-year-old school record for consecutive victories.
It also set a new mark for wins in a single season, a record that was previously held by the 1981 National Championship team.
And, with the 13-0 record, Clemson is the third ACC team in history to win at least 13 games. Florida State’s 2013 and 2014 teams won 14 and 13 games, respectively.
One more regular season game and conference title game certainly gives this squad a leg up on other teams in the record books, but the 2015 edition of the Clemson Tigers is going to be one for the ages, regardless of what happens in the College Football Playoff.
Artavis Scott quantified the challenge that is going 13-0.
“We grind. We live for these type of moments. We prepare ourselves for whatever is going to come our way, so I don’t think it’s a big challenge,” he said. “It is hard to go undefeated. We played some tough teams, some tough opponents, but this is what we live for. We work for these moments.”
An undefeated run is pretty special.
“It’s huge for us. It’s been a long time since we’ve been undefeated,” Scott said. “We just keep pushing through it, each and every week. We just trust in our preparation and things that we’ve done, to get us to this situation.”
With exams running through the end of the week, the Tigers have the week off. Once they regroup, focus will quickly turn to Oklahoma.
According to Scott, they’ll pick up right where they left off.
“I don’t think we’re going to have a problem staying focused. We’ve got a great leader, coach (Dabo) Swinney, he’s going to take care of that. I don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said. “We’re just going to keep doing what do each week.”
If history is any type of indicator, that means No. 14 is exactly three weeks away.