Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt’s national championship pick is already looking wrong. Klatt picked the Clemson Tigers to win the national championship vs. Ohio State, but with Clemson already going 1-3 and 0-2 in ACC conference play, the Tigers are unlikely to make the College Football Playoff.
Klatt picked Clemson to win the national championship against Ohio State because of Clemson’s high upside and Ohio State’s loss of talent in the 2025 NFL draft. Ohio State lost a nation-leading 14 players in the NFL draft last year. Clemson also has three players that Klatt believed would be the top players in the nation, although he doesn’t list them.
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Clemson has not played like a national championship contender at all. In Week 1, the Clemson Tigers lost to the LSU Tigers at home. Week 2 saw Clemson suffer a 16-3 deficit to the Troy Trojans, but the Tigers came back and won the game 27-16. In Week 3, Georgia Tech beat the Tigers to officially knock them out of the top 25, and this past week, Syracuse dominated the Tigers at home 34-21.
It’s rare to see a national champion contender at the beginning of the season look this bad. It speaks to the nature of college football that a team like Clemson can fall this far. Clemson has been among the nation’s most disappointing teams.
Georgia Bulldogs fans are hoping that Joel Klatt’s prediction on the Bulldogs’ playoff fate is wrong the other way.
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