Can the top-ranked Tigers stay focused on a trip to central New York?
No. 1 Clemson travels to Syracuse to take on the Orange, a program mired in a six-game losing streak and a team that will be without its starting quarterback. Since the start of the Associated Press poll in 1936, the Orange has faced the AP’s top-ranked team ten times before and is 1-9 in those games, the lone win coming against Nebraska in 1984.
Last season in Clemson, the Tigers’ defense held SU to 170 yards of total offense while Clemson racked up 375 yards of offense and possessed the ball for nearly 35 minutes in a 16-6 victory.