College football used to have clear rules, but head coach Lane Kiffin is testing every single boundary at LSU. Court rulings now let former NFL players return to college ball. Kiffin is using that loop to stack his roster right before the season opener against Clemson. But exploiting this system is starting to stir up […]
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#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson||#6 – Miami || #7 – Louisville || #8 – Pitt || #9 – Georgia Tech || #10 – Syracuse || #11 – Boston College || #12 – Virginia Tech || #13 – Florida State Over the last eight months or so, there has been a conversation, mostly quiet but occasionally quite public, about whether […]
LSU and Lane Kiffin will face a challenging 2026 schedule, with the Tigers opening the season at home against Clemson before hosting Louisiana Tech and then having to travel to what will be a very hostile environment at Ole Miss. The SEC slate gets tougher with Texas A&M coming to Tiger Stadium, followed by road […]
#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson||#6 – Miami || #7 – Louisville || #8 – Pitt || #9 – Georgia Tech || #10 – Syracuse || #11 – Boston College || #12 – Virginia Tech To be candid, the two teams we were most curious about for preview season were B.C. and Florida State, because both have hired […]
Lane Kiffin is concerned with one particular part of his team with just a few weeks to go until LSU's season opener against Clemson.
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Ahead of the LSU-Clemson showdown in Week 1, the crew of CBS Sports Inside College Football shared their picks.
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Clemson’s quarterback room is in flux just weeks before LSU, and the Tigers are reshuffling positions to cope with injuries and depth concerns. “Two position changes are now reflected on Clemson Football’s 2026 online roster: QB Chris Denson has moved to WR, and veteran OL Dietrick Pennington is now listed as a DT/OL and has […]
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#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson||#6 – Miami || #7 – Louisville || #8 – Pitt || #9 – Georgia Tech || #10 – Syracuse || #11 – Boston College What to make of the Hokies? They lost two major pieces from last season. Tobi Lawal is now with the Dallas Mavericks, and Neoklis Avdalas, most […]
The ACC was once the conference of quarterbacks boasting Deshaun Watson, Lamar Jackson, Brad Kaaya, Ryan Finley, Daniel Jones, and Mitchell Trubisky as starters all at the same time (2016). This year looks like a potential down year for ACC QBs. The Tigers will likely start Christopher Vizzina who has just one career start and […]
Here is a list of ACC high school recruits, and some international signees too. BOSTON COLLEGE OUT IN CAL OUT IN CLEMSON OUT IN DUKE OUT IN FLORIDA STATE OUT IN GEORGIA TECH OUT IN LOUISVILLE OUT IN MIAMI OUT IN NORTH CAROLINA OUT IN NORTH CAROLINA STATE OUT IN NOTRE DAME OUT IN PITT […]
Clemson obviously had a disappointing season last year, but to their credit, they made major adjustments. This included multiple assistant coaching changes, a bevy of major portal acquisitions, and much more successful investment in high school recruiting. To start the 2026 season, they’ll be facing a program that experienced even more change this offseason with […]
Georgia won a big recruiting battle against Clemson, landing a commitment for a 4-star in-state defensive back.
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Looking Back and then Forward on the Defensive Second Level Clemson welcomed Tom Allen as its new defensive coordinator ahead of the 2025 season. Allen also brought along his son Thomas Allen, Jr. and Dabo Swinney elevated Ben Boulware to lead the position group. A drop-off after losing Brent Venables to Oklahoma was probably inevitable, […]
#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia Somehow, Clemson has become one of the ACC programs we most admire, and given the history there, that’s a surprise. Clemson, since the days of Tates Locke, has largely recruited Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and southern North Carolina for talented players who, […]
In a new ranking, college football fans named Dabo Swinney the third most hated head coach. For anyone who has followed him at Clemson, that label will not come as a surprise. At ACC Kickoff, he chose to talk less about the list and more about how he handles love and hate. “You get a […]
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These are indeed crazy times. Breaking news from MSU is that Guskiewicz has chosen to stay at Michigan State after previously leaving for Clemson. Guskiewicz sited his departure was due to certain members of the Board of Trustees. Support for Guskiewicz was wide spread with signs all over campus and even a petition on Change.org […]
Three star edge rusher Elijah Cox committed to Ole Miss on Sunday after being pursued by Georgia Tech, Clemson and Mississippi State among others. The 6’5” 200 lbs. do everything prospect out of Westlake HS (GA), which is a football factory, goes by the nickname “Diesel” and has had numerous official visits across the southeast […]
College football was getting very predictable for a while. Alabama. Clemson. Rinse. Repeat. Although still among the traditional powers of the sport — LSU, Georgia and Michigan brought some fresh names to the stage from 2019 to 2023 as the talent pool seemed to begin flattening. But things were still fairly predictable. Those teams didn’t [...]
A 4-star linebacker from Indianapolis has verbally committed to Kentucky over Georgia, Clemson and others.
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When Kentucky hired J Batt to come from Michigan State, everyone knew that it would come at a price. But it turns out, it’s not going to be nearly as much as expected. Thanks to Michigan State’s former president, Kevin Guskiewicz, that number is halved. Because Guskiewicz decided to leave East Lansing to become Clemson’s […]
David Pollack imagined many things when his son started attracting college football attention, but watching him commit to Clemson probably wasn’t one of them. The Georgia legend, whose football soul is wrapped in red and black, just saw the colors in his household change. And for the first time since the commitment dropped, he’s breaking […]
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On a day when the big piece of news was supposed to be the pending decision coming from Jeremy Fears, Michigan State University was met with the blindside announcement that Kevin Guskiewicz, the school’s president, is resigning in order to take the same position at Clemson. Sports Illustrated has a good piece on it. For […]
Amid college athletics scramble for money to pay top football and basketball players, others have paid the price. Arkansas cut their men’s and women’s tennis programs, UTEP cut their women’s tennis program, and Cal Poly cut their men’s and women’s swimming programs. The reason is obvious. Those sports lose money — money that can be […]
ACC Prescription asks if Duke basketball has found the loophole to generate extra revenue. ChopChat says the cancellation of the UGA home and home is a worst-case scenario for FSU football. The national media is not high on Clemson football says Rubbing the Rock. StateoftheU looks at the depth of Miami football and asks … Continue reading »
Perhaps the worst part of this new age of college football is the death to rivalries across the country. The tragedies began with conference realignment 15 years ago, and the big move by Nebraska to the Big 10, and it continues because of what the college football playoff has become. Notre Dame isn’t completely innocent […]