Fox Sports’ lead college football analyst, Joel Klatt, recapped the matchup between 12 th -seeded Clemson and No. 5 seed Texas in the first round of the College Football Playoff.
Making their seventh CFP appearance and first since 2020, the Tigers put forth a really gutsy performance while showing plenty of heart and fight, but ultimately fell short in their 38-24 loss to the Longhorns this past Saturday.
“Texas is a tough road environment, and Clemson goes to Texas and they lose that game, and Texas is able to win. And listen, this was going to be a hearty ask from this Clemson team,” Klatt said. “This is a team that I don’t think any of us this year — in particular after they lost that first game to Georgia — any of us thought to ourselves, like, ‘Yeah, they’re definitely going to make a run.’ So in a lot of ways, this team overachieved to get to this point, thanks in part to Fran Brown and the Syracuse Orange for beating Miami. They get into that game against SMU, they beat SMU, and they really earned their way into the College Football Playoff. And you know what, they played that way. They played that way. Of all the road teams, Clemson gave the best performance.”…