Before the 2025 season, Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt was one of the national analysts who picked Clemson to win the national championship this year. Now, just three weeks into the season, he obviously knows he got his prediction wrong.

After the Tigers (1-2) suffered their season loss against Georgia Tech last Saturday, Klatt took to social media and admitted, “Well, I guess I need to adjust off that Clemson NC pre-season pick” – capping off his post with a couple of falcepalm emojis.

On The Joel Klatt Show this week, Klatt ate some crow for his preseason pick of Clemson to win it all, while expressing his concern about the Tigers’ issues on offense.

“I had Clemson winning the national championship before the year, and yikes. I had to send out a tweet revisiting that. … I’ll wear it. Wrong. I was wrong,” Klatt said. “That experience has not paid off. The blueprint did not work. No, Clemson is not a good football team right now. They are not. This is a team that, offensively, is struggling.”

Not only did Klatt pick Clemson to win the national title, but when he ranked his top 10 quarterbacks heading into the 2025 season, Klatt put Clemson’s Cade Klubnik at No. 1 on the list.

Unfortunately for the Tigers, that clearly hasn’t been the case either.

“Klubnik hasn’t even been close to even a good quarterback, much less the best quarterback in college football,” Klatt said. “… This is not a good offensive football team, and it’s not even particularly close. It’s not like they’re 35th in the country in scoring or 45th in the country in scoring. No, no, no — it’s not even like they’re 65th in the country in scoring. They’re 112th in college football scoring the football. Under 20 points per game.”

So, what has happened to Clemson’s offense?

Klatt says it’s “not a singular player issue” – or simply Clemson being without star wide receiver Antonio Williams due to the hamstring injury he sustained early in the season-opening loss to LSU.

“That is not a singular player issue,” he said. “So for all of the people just ranting and raving about, ‘Well, we lost Antonio Williams, our best wide receiver.’ It cannot just be your wide receiver when you’re 112th in scoring. Something is wrong with Clemson’s offense. We have seen this, and I thought that they fixed this at a point last year when they started playing well down the stretch. Even in a loss at Texas in the College Football Playoff, I was like, ‘You know what? I see it. I see it with Klubnik. I see it with this team.’ And now I don’t. Now I don’t

“There is something very wrong offensively with Clemson, and it’s cost them now twice. It can’t just be Antonio Williams. Can’t be. It’s gotta be something bigger than that. The offensive line had experience coming back. How are they not better on the offensive line? I don’t understand it. I really don’t.”