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Podcast: Cover 3 College Football Episode: Picking One CFB Team To Make A CONTENDER | Nick Saban OPPOSES SEC & Big Ten | COVER 3 MAILBAG! ✉️ Segment: Clemson podcast segment **Actionable Picks / Plays Mentioned** - Clemson over 7.5 wins or Miami ACC champions? **Top Team-Specific Takeaways** - Let me pull up Clemson schedule real quick before I... - You've got to find five losses on that schedule for Clemson. Transcript excerpt: So it's a balanced question. This comes from the employer of units. Both currently priced at minus 135, which would you be more willing to put your money on? Clemson over 7.5 wins or Miami ACC champions? It's a really good one, and I have been very defensive of Dabo Sweeney saying that last year was more of a blip. Let me pull up Clemson schedule real quick before I... because they do have LSU on the road, right? That's 31, so then it's... Maybe they could win that game. But see, the thing about Miami ACC champs, like, do you want them in a one-game scenario and something they haven't done in 20 years? Or do you go with an entire season? I'll go with Clemson over seven and a half wins. Because if there's a hot team that comes out, it's a one-game scenario for Miami in the ACC title game that possibly doesn't matter that much for Miami if they're undefeated. You know, how much is that desire there? I'll go with Clemson. You know, I mean, that schedule's tough, but it's not the toughest. I mean, they do have like... they get the LSU game to open. That's probably a loss. I'm not going to say it's a guaranteed loss, but it's... Cal on the road, we've seen that. We've seen what the cross-country road trips can do, and then it's not just that they have to go across the country to play Cal. It's that the very next week they're playing Miami. So it's like you have that travel and then you get the canes who might... you know, are the favored in the league. You've got to play Florida State on the road. I have no idea what they're going to be as a team, but we've certainly seen Clemson go on the road to the dome and not put together the best performances in the past, even when they were still very good. I think I would rather have Miami to win the ACC. Just because when I look around at the rest of the league, like, what's my primary competition? I don't feel like it's Clemson this year. I don't think Clemson's heading in the right direction. Florida State, who the hell knows what they expect from Florida State in any given year? For all we know, the Seminoles might be 10 and 2 next year competing for the ACC once again, but right now, it's hard to sit there and sit there. I'm worried about the Seminoles. Maybe James Franklin gets the Hokies back to the top. Rhett Lashley and SMU are going to be good, but I don't know if I have them as like a legit threat, but again, it's only a one game. You've got to find five losses on that schedule for Clemson. I bless you, Miami, Virginia Tech at Florida State, and then do they lose like at Syracuse, at Duke, South Carolina on the road at Cal? I don't think it's that difficult. I mean, the win totals at seven and a half. It's within the very realistic realm of possibilities. So yeah, hell, they win seven and six last year. With the returning quarterback that it played multiple years with seven, what they have? And I also feel too, like Clemson is one of those things where they get off to a slow start. Like if they get dog walked by LSU, and then they go and they lose the Cal and they lose to Miami, and they're two and three, that's the kind of thing I feel like could snowball really quickly out of control. Just because you're going to start hearing a whole lot more about Davos status there. Obviously, if they're two and three, the Chad Morris higher has not worked out. The quarterback play isn't working out. So yeah, I just feel like they could have the season that goes off the rails if they don't get off to a good start. Same time, they could also start four and one. And then we're like, oh, here come table again. I just have more confidence, I think, putting money on Miami to win the ACC, because I'm not saying it's easier. I just don't see a real clear cut.