This week, a panel of ESPN college football reporters broke down the strength and weakness for each team in the outlet’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for the 2025 season. Clemson (10-4, 7-1 ACC in 2024) checks in at No. 7 in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 after winning the 2024 ACC Championship and earning a spot in […]
ESPN senior writer Andrea Adelson believes Clemson can get back to dominating on the defensive side of the ball, with new defensive coordinator Tom Allen now in the fold. There are plenty of reasons why Adelson expects Allen to make a big difference for the Tiger defense. But the No. 1 thing, in her opinion, […]
The 2025 college football season is a ways away from kicking off, but ESPN senior writer Andrea Adelson doesn’t need to wait to pick the ACC preseason favorite. Adelson believes Clemson is once again the team to beat, coming off a 2024 campaign in which the Tigers claimed their eighth ACC Championship in the past […]
With the start of the 2023 college football campaign almost upon us, ESPN stacked up who it sees as the top teams in the sport entering the new season. Clemson landed at No. 9 in ESPN’s preseason CFB power rankings, two spots behind ACC foe Florida State at No. 7. ESPN’s Andrea Adelson broke down […]
Clemson’s offense is in trouble? ESPN published an article this week going through spring football overreactions for different college teams — and providing reality checks around the nation. ESPN’s Andrea Adelson weighed in on the overreaction: “The Clemson offense isn’t fixed!” Despite the arrival of Garrett Riley as offensive coordinator, Clemson’s April 15 spring game […]
This ESPN writer believes Clemson has plenty to prove in 2023. A panel of ESPN reporters weighed in on who has the most to prove this season, from teams to players and coaches, and Andrea Adelson pegged Clemson as the team with the most to prove. In 2022, the Tigers won their seventh ACC Championship […]
During a “True or False” segment on ACC Network’s Packer and Durham this week, ESPN’s Andrea Adelson, who was filling in for Mark Packer to co-host the show with Wes Durham, weighed in on the following statement: Clemson will start the same quarterback in every game this season. Adelson gave her answer, going with “true” and opining […]
Filling in for Mark Packer and co-hosting Packer and Durham with Wes Durham on ACC Network this week, ESPN’s Andrea Adelson weighed in on whether Clemson should be the favorite to win the ACC this season given the uncertainty surrounding its quarterback situation. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney made it clear that rising junior D.J. Uiagalelei is […]
An ESPN writer/analyst is enthralled by the Clemson football program when she thinks about Dabo Swinney’s team going forward into next season, in light of the changes on Swinney’s staff and his decision to fill both coordinator roles internally. Swinney, of course, promoted from within the program when replacing Tony Elliott and Brent Venables as […]
In a recent edition of The ESPN College Football Podcast, there was a discussion about Dabo Swinney doubling down on something that has worked for him at Clemson so far, which is internal promotions within his coaching staff. After Chad Morris left Clemson at the end of the 2014 season to become the head coach […]