Not sure how good their algorithms are, but 538 is giving us a 40% chance of winning the ACC championship. I would take those odds every day of the week, but realistically I would put us closer to 30%. Here's a link, also has us at an 11% chance to make the playoff.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features...college-football-playoff-predictions-week-12/
Clemson has a very good, but beatable football team. Two biggest things would be shutting down the QB run, and preventing the home run balls. They get a lot of their points from the deep ball, if our corners come to play it could be really interesting. Watson has looked a little shaky in big time games, a big turnover at the opportune moment might be what it takes. Clemson has stalled out a few times this year on offense, and we've got one of the best DC's in the game at any level so who knows...
Offensively, we can score points on anyone if the play calling is good enough. That being said, Littrell vs Venables is a huge coaching match-up disadvantage for us. But Quise has to protect the football, I'm talking ZERO turnovers, and Hood would need to have the kind of game that would make him a preseason Heisman candidate in 2016. Throw in a few deep balls to Hollins/Switzer and this could easily go our way.
My question is, assuming we beat mooU, how many points do we have to beat #1 Clemson by to jump into a playoff? I'm not so sure a narrow victory would be good enough, but if we beat them by 2 scores or more things could get real interesting.
