CBS spring question for Clemson

Mar 31, 2023, 11:13 AM

CBS Sports did its spring questions for each ACC football game and Clemson's surrounded the new offense:

Can Garrett Riley restore the offensive standard? From 2011-20, Clemson ranked as the No. 1 or No. 2 team in the ACC in total offense nearly every single year. The Tigers were No. 1 in four of those seasons (2012, 2015, 2018 and 2019) and finished second four times. The two outliers came in gap years for the All-ACC quarterback transition from Tajh Boyd to Deshaun Watson to Trevor Lawrence.

Still, the Tigers fielded better-than-average and often elite offenses every year since coach Dabo Swinney first hired Chad Morris to energize the Tigers' offense prior to the 2011 season. So you can imagine the surprise and concern when the Tigers had one of the worst offenses in the ACC in 2021. Though things rebounded statistically in 2022, it was clear Clemson's offense needed some juice once again. Twelve years after Morris changed the direction of the program, Swinney has once again hired a bright offensive mind with deep Texas roots: Garrett Riley.

The challenge for Riley is to install his version of the Air Raid in a way that fits Clemson's personnel and ability to handle the system. Swinney insists the install has been going well this spring, even as the Tigers put in a tempo and spread-concept offense with more than a handful of wide receivers missing time due to injury. Clemson's offense is a top 2023 storyline not just for the ACC but the nation as well, because the potential is through the roof. Riley has the advantage of stepping into a situation not with an unsettled quarterback rotation, but rather with a QB1 that should take kindly to his brand of offense. Cade Klubnik, the former five-star prospect out of Austin, Texas, is one of the top players in the conference you'd want running this system. If everything clicks, we should see the Tigers fielding one of the ACC's best offenses yet again.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/one-question-each-acc-football-team-must-answer-during-spring-practices-ahead-of-2023-season/

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