CLEMSON — Wade Woodaz appreciates what those have done that came before him.

He appreciates how the 2016 and 2018 teams took Clemson Football to the Promise Land. He appreciates what those players did to make Clemson Football what it is today.

He is also tired of hearing about those teams.

Clemson’s senior linebacker wants this year’s team to replace those teams and become the newest examples of what it takes to make Clemson Football a National Champion.

“To be brutally honest, I am tired of hearing Coach [Dabo] Swinney talk about Christian Wilkins and Austin Bryant, Dexter Lawrence and Trevor Lawrence, all of the past leadership,” Woodaz said following Day 1 of Fall Camp on Thursday. “I want to take all the stuff that is on the walls down, and I want it to be us. I want it to be this team.”

Reminders of the 2016 and ’18 teams’ championship glory is visible all over Clemson’s Allen Reeves Football Complex. Those two Clemson teams are the apex of a period in which the Tigers advanced to six straight College Football Playoffs (2015-’20) and advanced to the national championship game in four of those six years (2015,’16, ’18 and ’19).

Clemson’s six consecutive playoff appearances are still a CFP record.

Many outside of Clemson feel this year’s Clemson team is capable of bringing the Tigers back to glory. Woodaz feels its important this year’s team starts visualizing what those teams did, so in return they can bring another national championship to Clemson.

“I think, just fostering the idea of that to the leadership and then going out there and working every day and then bring the coaching staff to push us to where they want [us to be be], because they want to be successful as well.”

Clemson is considered to be a preseason top 10 or top 5 team this coming season. The Tigers were picked overwhelming by the media on Wednesday to win a second consecutive ACC Championship. Clemson has won eight of the last 10 ACC Championships.