Fox Sports Analyst Has Clemson Winning National Championship

Any time a national television analyst picks your team to win a national championship, there’s a lot of expectation, especially if you’re the Clemson Tigers. 

Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt predicted each Power 4 conference champion and predicted how the 12-team College Football Playoff would go, and he ended up with the Tigers at the mountaintop at the end of the year. 

He picked Clemson to take the No. 3 overall seed in the playoff following an ACC Championship title defense against the Miami Hurricanes in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

“They will have played LSU, they will have played South Carolina, they’ve got all that experience, including their quarterback, [Cade] Klubnik, they’ve got a coach who has won two national championships,” Klatt said on his show on FOX Sports. “I think Clemson wins the ACC and they beat Miami in that game.” 

Klatt believes that Tigers will face the winner of the No. 6 Oregon Ducks and No. 11 Michigan Wolverines, where he eventually takes the Ducks due to the first round home-field advantage. 

Despite the opponent, and Oregon head coach Dan Lanning’s motive to get past the quarterfinals, Klatt believes the Tigers’ veterans make the difference. 

“One team has a very experienced quarterback, the other does not, so I’m going with Cade Klubnik and the Clemson Tigers here,” Klatt said. “I think this is a balanced Clemson team.”

The Tigers would then have a familiar opponent in the Texas Longhorns in the semifinal of the postseason tournament. 

“I’m going to go with the more experienced quarterback here,” he said. “I think Dabo and Klubnik and that defense and just their overall soundness get the job done.”