00:00kind of where are you at right now is there anything over the last week that has particularly
00:04caught your eye you know obviously it'll with the AP pool coming out Monday we're barreling towards
00:11week one I think you saw Clemson's Dabo Sweeney yesterday say you know nobody's really standing
00:17out we're a team of nobodies and and kind of that 72 Miami Dolphins approach I suppose but I
00:23got to thinking about Clemson a little bit and a team that went seven and six last year didn't
00:29they they underperformed with the roster they had plenty of NFL draft picks and here they go they
00:36head into the the other Death Valley or whichever I don't know which one's first or second but
00:40they play LSU in the opener I think you know week one schedule leaves a little bit to be desired
00:46Bobby
00:46but the winner and loser of that game will probably have the largest overreaction in week one without
00:54a doubt because if Lane wins his opener everybody's gonna you know uh look at him and and say hey
01:01the
01:01LSU is going to be great and and if that but especially if Dabo loses and Clemson loses in
01:06another big spot
01:09if they end up losing that game we'll talk about Dabo
01:13Bill I mean would you kind of and maybe we've already hit this point would you kind of mark
01:20that as the you know ceremonial end to kind of what we've known Clemson to be over the last eight
01:26to ten years well I I still think it really happened when they lost to Ohio State and Justin Fields
01:34that
01:34last touchdown pass that was at Chris Olave that just uh that was the end of Clemson as a national
01:40championship contender that was the last time they really were a national championship contender and
01:45I think part of it is quarterback play I mean you can't can't get mad when you go from you
01:51know
01:52Taj Boyd to Deshaun Watson and the career that he had at Clemson and then you go to Trevor Lawrence
01:57and
01:57and obviously we're going to talk about our greatest teams that 2018 team was the peak of Clemson football
02:04you know the one that went out to beat Alabama out I was at the game at Levi's Stadium they
02:08beat Alabama
02:0944 to 16 um but I I think so I mean they they built their reputation by beating LSU and
02:17beating
02:17you know Georgia and Alabama and Ohio State and it's been a minute since they've won one of those
02:23big games I didn't know I'm sorry Steel I didn't know if I interrupted your thought but all good I
02:28was going to ask them what do you think would be considered a successful season for them this year
02:33well I I mean getting back into ACC contention immediately right like I think that's something
02:40they're going to need to do they need to get back in contention in that conference they're not picked
02:44to win the conference there was a a point in time where Clemson was the only pick to win the
02:50ACC
02:50they dominated the ACC for about a decade and uh it was either them or Florida State now they're
02:56picked to finish fourth or fifth I mean they're behind Louisville and SMU in the pecking order so to me
03:01it's getting back to the top of the ACC making it interesting with Miami who is a uh pretty
03:07prohibitive favor to win the conference yeah Miami I think you know you look at the spans and how
03:12they're doing it versus what Clemson does it seems like the gap is widening but they will have a chance
03:16ultimately to get that done and change that the perception of it this year
03:21you're a
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