Sometimes it’s easy to pick the big games on the Clemson football schedule well before the season starts, but there are also times a season has to play out before you can truly determine which games were the biggest.
In several recent seasons, Florida State seemed to be a big game in the preseason, only to see the Seminoles bumble and stumble their way to sub-mediocrity and those games turn into duds.
In some ways, the coach speak of “every week is our biggest game” is true, at least in college football, where any loss can be a season wrecker.