Danny Ford’s teams set the standard by which all others at Clemson are measured and eight games into this season he was sufficiently impressed to say this team has the earmarks of a national champion.
“They’ve done everything they had to do and they looked pretty doggone good doing it in pretty much all phases,” Ford said earlier this week.
The coach of Clemson’s national championship team in 1981, he sees a lot to like including the physical lines – a staple of Ford teams – and quarterback Deshaun Watson.
“They are more physical. I don’t know where they developed that unless they did it in the spring when they might have ran the ball more rather than throwing it,” he said.