Clemson Football 2024 Preview | 2024 College Football Picks, Predictions and Best Bets

it is our first non SEC non Big 10 team to crack the gold sheet top 25 I am Ralph Michaels walking you through these best teams in college football team number 14 the Clems and tigers and when we get to better Edge at the end of this video I've got an 88% situation and a 100% ATS situation valid three times this year let's look at what the expectations for Clemson are we're doing this video July 17th so if the lines move you know what they were in the middle of the summer National Championship OBS for Clemson 40 to one Conference Championship odds plus 350 to make the college football playoffs yes plus 190 no minus 250 your season win total sits at nine and a half the over is plus 135 the under is minus 160 and to go undefeated yes plus 900 no minus 2000 with their quarterback Kade kubik he's 50 to1 in the Heisman race when we're analyzing teams for the 2024 season we want to go back to the 2023 season and see if they overachieved or underachieved as we're setting our parameters for the upcoming season well when we look at Clemson in 2023 they were number 43 in yards per play diff at plus 055 their offense and defense yards per game 52 on offense eight on defense points per game 52 on offense but they were actually 30 on defense so you see some value there while the yards they were number eight they gave up some points and they're number 30 their strength of schedule last year was number 42 and when you look at their efficiency ranks their offense very poor was number 73 their defense was number seven they went nine and four six and seven against the spread and six and seven over under that snapped a streak of 12 straight seasons of double digit wins under tabos Sweeny how about this for a bizarre stat offensively in the Red Zone they were number 118 poor defensive on Red Zone they were number 63 poor but they were surprisingly a number two in plays per game last year so despite having the offense that struggled he still kept the pace up and again that's shocked me when I realized that Clemson ran the second most number of plays per game in the season when we look at their schedule they had six games decided by eight points or less which I call close games many times when a team has a great season on close games they fall back a few if they have a bad season it tends to improve well Clemson went three and three so we can't take anything out of that the Duke loss they had first and goal from the Duke seven and first and goal from the Duke one they fumbled both times then Duke had a 33 yard TD after a fumble and a 49 yard TD after the stop of downs to give the Blue Devils that rare win against Clemson against Florida State tied at 17 tied at 24 Florida State got a 56 yard fumble return touchdown in the third quarter no scoring in the fourth quarter and Florida State scores a TD in overtime to win that Wake Forest they held Wake Forest to 239 yards the game was close 17 to 12 but they had a touchdown plus lead until the last minute of the game so that really wasn't as close as a five-point final and against Miami remember Miami was wild van djk at quarterback Miami D held Clemson to 31 yards rushing on over 30 attempts it was tied 77 it was tied 717 into 0 time Clemson gets a field goal Miami gets the touchdown and against NC State there were minus two turnovers that led to two touchdowns that was the difference in that game guys we are about halfway through these top 25 videos we've already gotten great suggestions in the comment section please do comment below what you like what you don't like how many games do you think these Clemson Tigers will win and do you think they will win the ACC give us a thumbs up we appreciate you taking the time to watch wager talk TV the 2024 Clemson Tigers returned nine on offense five on defense they're number 33 as far as returning production in Connelly's ranks now I will say this they brought in zero transfers last year they brought in one transfer the year before Dao Sweeney just does not want to change the way he coaches the football team he refuses to to use the transfer portal and I think it's really hurt him the last couple years I think it's going to hurt him again this year when you have all those quality players wanting to play for you in an established environment and you you're not interested in taking them on number one it hurts you number two it makes your opponents better we'll see what happens if he's made any changes as I said 14 starters back this year well you look at the last three years they had 15 14 and 14 so perfectly on par with what they're accustomed to going into September with as far as returning production in the draft they did lose six players for 19 points but they lost six players for 22 points the last year and lost two players for six points the year prior but again when Clemson was on that run they had historic numbers of players drafted so they know how to withstand the losses in the NFL draft again they lost six players this past year for 19 points again clb Nick your quarterback 2800 yards 199 ratio does need to get better with some of those interceptions had four rushing touchdowns they do return their leading running back but they do lose Shipley they had a one-w tandem last year we'll have to see if someone else can pull the weight as they split carries often with their back field they lose their number two receiver but that's fine they return top of their five six top of their they return five of their top 6 I can speak and they are going to be an improved unit and the o line returns four starters they're in solid shape of all the four units on the offensive side of the ball the o line will be the rock their dline their dline loses their number their defense loses the number one tackler and nine of their top 15 tacklers their dline loses three and a half starters and three draft choices massive losses the linebackers lose two including an NFL draft pick and the DBS lose three and a half starters so when you lose when your DBS are basically all new starters and one of your DBS was a number one draft choice pick to Baltimore you know that is going to be the unit that has the most concern Clemson is still a fine defensive unit folks they play a lot of players they have a lot of depth but again that Lineback in core early you'll see they play Georgia and NC State in the first three games of the Season that'll make the difference of where this Clemson TEAM stands guys all this data is from the gold sheet newsletter the finest and oldest football newsletter available with code gs30 you can save $30 off the annual gold Chief subscription get college football in NFL combo gold cheet from week zero in August through the Super Bowl and save $30 again with code gs30 head to wagertalk.com or gold sheet.com the 2024 schedule we have Clemson with the number 45 toughest schedule the games in Gray are the games between eights from an eighto dog to an eight-point favorite I throw those up in the toss-up categories you're within a touchdown either away you'll see there are eight of those games where they're favored by 12 or more seven as a favorite one is the dog to Georgia in their season opener they're a three-point dog at Florida State and they're a Sixpoint favorite against Virginia Tech on the road and they're a seven-point projected favorite against Louisville at home so I do like this schedule no team has a buy before playing Clemson this year that's a positive when you look at the NC State game Clemson get a buy after game two of the Season they'll be your Young quarterback can now Prosper again they can work on things going in to that conference setting against nsky state they're off a buy meanwhile the wolf pack are against the neutral game against Tennessee and home against Louisiana Tech week two against Stanford excuse me game four against anford the second week after the buy the Cardinals are off Syracuse the week before so they're GNA fly to Syracuse and then either go home or fly back to Clemson now again these are all new travel situations that we're going to have to realize with these pack 10 teams I can tell you if an NF NFL team was traveling across country they likely would stay on the East Coast for that entire week I'm not sure that Stanford will allow that with their kids missing that much school so they may have to go at Syracuse at Clemson home Virginia Tech and then back out to MRE Dame keep an eye on that Stanford scheduling situation against Louisville they're off a bu Louisville's playing their seventh straight week second of back-to-back away games and third away game in four weeks and they're at BCC the week prior plus they're off Miami at Virginia SMU and Notre Dame again so both situations where Clemson are off of by powerful powerful edges to the Tigers we're going to finish up as we do with the better better Edge but again if you're not a part of wager talk TV subscribe right now find out where there why there is a 163,000 wager talk TV subscribers you'll get notified immediately when I do team number 15 coming up well let's look at Davos Sweeney the last four years he's 23 and 29 against the spread 44.2% prior to 2019 Sweeney was 16 and 12 57% as a big favorite of 28 points or more but since 2020 the last four years while he was 57% as a favorite of four touchdowns plus prior to 2019 the last four years he's gone 0 and eight failing to cover those games by nine points per game in the 17 years under davo Sweeney when Clemson has a total of 48 or less they've only cashed 39.2% against the spread and only 44.2% have gone over the total how about this though when they have Revenge when Clemson has revenge against an opponent they've gone 21 and 12 72% if they have revenge and now they're a dog of plus five or more like they're going to be against Georgia not only are they a perfect nine and0 they're covered those games by 11 points per game and they pulled five upsets the nine times they were a dog playing with revenge and now they're as a dog of five or more playing with Revenge a perfect nine and0 and when you look at Clemson with revenge against ACC foes they've gone 20-6 77% and they're 7-1 88% if they're off off they have revenge for a home loss including four and0 since 2009 so we're venge spot against Georgia conference Revenge off a previous home loss Florida State and NC State are in that mix and my actionable info for this game Clemson minus 7 and half against NC State if you remember going back to look at our schedule I projected Clemson to be 12 that gives us a ton of value in itself then add in that NC State horrible situation they're off a neutral game against Tennessee having to play Latt Tech now getting ready for Clemson Circle that game it's actually an available game at DraftKings right now Clemson minus 7even and a half against NC State on September 21st check out the previous 13 teams and all these great team previews below and again thank you for all the comments and 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