Coming into the season, we looked at the non-conference slate and saw five games against top-150 opponents and seven against creampuffs. The goal was to go 3-2 against the good teams and take care of business against the latter.
"If they can reach ACC play with two losses, that would be great, but three feels more likely."
While Clemson succeeded in avoiding any head-scratching losses, they went 0-5 against legitimate opponents. First they lost to UMass, and while that name sounds decent, we pointed out that they wouldn't be very good this year when we wrote our initial schedule breakdown.