A national outlet believes a bunch of Clemson’s games will be among the best of this year’s ACC slate.

Athlon Sports went through all 14 weeks of the upcoming regular season and predicted the top game in each week of the 2025 ACC schedule.

Six Clemson games landed on the list, starting with the Week 1 showdown against LSU at Memorial Stadium on Aug. 30.

After four previous postseason meetings, the Clemson Tigers and Bayou Bengals will meet one another in regular season play for the first time in history. Clemson is 12-5 against SEC opponents in regular season play in the College Football Playoff era. The marquee matchup between the respective conference powers will mark Clemson’s first time opening a season at home since 2019.

“It’s a close call between LSU at Clemson or Notre Dame at Miami for the top spot in Week 1,” Athlon’s Steven Lassan wrote. “But this all-Tigers affair at Clemson gets the nod, especially with a top-notch quarterback battle expected between Cade Klubnik (Clemson) and Garrett Nussmeier (LSU).”

Clemson’s road matchup at Georgia Tech was circled as the best Week 3 game in the ACC, as was Clemson’s home date with SMU in Week 8.

Clemson will open ACC play on Sept. 13 when the Tigers face the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta. By virtue of the ACC adopting a divisionless format with altered protected rivalries, last season marked the first year since 1982 that Clemson and Georgia Tech did not face one another. Clemson’s last road game at Georgia Tech was played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2022, so this year’s contest will mark the Tigers’ first trip to Bobby Dodd Stadium since 2020, when Clemson won 73-7 – the largest margin of victory in an ACC game in conference history.

“Georgia Tech is a sleeper contender for the ACC title in 2025,” Lassan wrote. “This early September matchup against Clemson is another opportunity for coach Brent Key’s team to land a marquee upset.”

In October, Clemson will play its lone home game of the month on Oct. 18 when it faces SMU at Memorial Stadium in a rematch of the teams’ thrilling 2024 ACC Championship Game. The Tigers and Mustangs met for the first time in series history last December when Nolan Hauser’s 56-yard walk-off field goal gave Clemson its record 22nd ACC title and sent the Tigers to their seventh College Football Playoff.

“A rematch of last year’s thriller in the ACC Championship is easily the must-see game of Week 8,” Lassan wrote. “Can the Mustangs get revenge for the last-second loss in Charlotte?”

Clemson will take on Florida State at Death Valley on Nov. 8, and that’s the ACC’s best Week 11 game, according to Athlon.

Clemson has won eight of its last nine meetings with Florida State, including four straight wins in Tallahassee and a 4-1 mark at Death Valley. Clemson and Florida State have played each other in 13 of the last 14 seasons since 2011, and the Clemson/Florida State winner has won the ACC in 12 of the 13 seasons in which the Tigers and Seminoles have squared off in that span.

“With Florida State’s regression in 2024, this game doesn’t quite have the appeal of previous years where it was among the must-see matchups in the conference,” Lassan wrote. “However, this season’s game will provide insight into just how far the Seminoles improved after the ’24 debacle – or how far ahead the Tigers are from the rest of the conference.”

Clemson will close out its regular season conference slate in Louisville, Ky. against the Louisville Cardinals on Friday, Nov. 14, and of course, the Tigers will finish the 2025 regular season with the rivalry matchup against South Carolina in Columbia on Nov. 29.

Those two games were pegged by Athlon as the top games of Weeks 12 and 14, respectively.

Louisville earned its first win against Clemson in series history last season with a 33-21 win. However, Clemson remains 4-0 in road games at Louisville, including most recently a 30-24 victory in 2021 in which the Tigers held the Cardinals out of the end zone on four straight downs from the Clemson 2-yard line in the final minute for the win.

“This Friday night showdown is one of the ACC’s biggest games for 2025,” Lassan wrote. “The Cardinals stunned the Tigers 33-21 in Death Valley last season. Will Clemson get revenge in this year’s meeting?”

As for the game against South Carolina, Clemson has won each of its last five road games against the Gamecocks across the 2015-23 seasons, and a win would give the Tigers six straight road wins against the Gamecocks for the first time since winning in Columbia six straight times across the 1989-99 seasons.

–Clemson Athletic Communications contributed to this story