CLEMSON — The Clemson basketball team emerged from its nonconference schedule as the calendar flipped to 2019 sitting at 10-3 on the season and looking for more as ACC play begins.

Clemson players and coaches took time to snap photos in front of the College Football Playoff logo and greet a group of youth football players after touching down in California on Friday evening, but make no mistake — business was first and foremost on their minds.

As Alabama and Clemson fans make the cross-country trek to Santa Clara, Calif., for Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game, some local residents are stomaching rising airfare prices to support their Tigers in California. 

CLEMSON — It came as no surprise, but official word came Thursday afternoon that Clemson will again be without the services of Dexter Lawrence on Monday night against Alabama.

CLEMSON — In one half, Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa became a star.

College football experts have almost unanimously agreed throughout this season that Alabama and Clemson are the two best teams in the country, and the results of last weekend’s College Football Playoff semifinals provided indisputable evidence of that.

Whether it’s the one where his face is crudely pasted onto the body of Banks McFadden from a nearly 80-year-old photograph, or a doctored photo of him looking on during a Clemson practice more than 30 years ago, there are no shortage of quality Hunter Renfrow pictures going around on the internet.

Simply put, last year’s Sugar Bowl was not a good night for the Clemson Tigers.

As Clemson prepares to play for a national championship for the third time in four years, there’s no question the Tigers’ roster relies on a veteran core to lead the way.

Even before fall camp opened across the country in August, it seemed to be a practically forgone conclusion how the college football season would draw to a conclusion.

The country’s top two high school football all-star games will be played this week, and there will be several Clemson and South Carolina signees and targets in the games.

Over the weekend, the Clemson basketball team dispatched of Lipscomb by a final score of 84-67 at Littlejohn Coliseum to close out non-conference play.

As has been the case so many times this season, Clemson wholly outclassed its competition Saturday afternoon in the Cotton Bowl.

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Clemson players and coaches insisted all week leading up to Saturday’s Cotton Bowl that, while the loss of suspended defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence would hurt, the Tigers’ depth on defense would lessen the blow. They were right on the money.