It’s simple if you’re Clemson. There are no ifs or ands and hoping someone else wins or loses. Saturday night is win or else.
Win and the Tigers claim a second consecutive ACC Atlantic Division crown, nail down a berth in the ACC Championship Game and keep their hopes for a spot in the College Football Playoff alive. Lose, and Louisville wins the crown and Clemson can look forward to some other bowl trip, the kind that wouldn’t be much of consolation prize in a season that started with high expectations.
Clemson is heavily favored over the Demon Deacons, but all you have to do is take a look at the Tigers’ loss to Pitt last weekend, Michigan’s loss to Iowa or even Louisville’s Thursday night loss to Houston to know that upsets have dotted the college football landscape the last few weeks.