It didn't take long for the wheels to fall off of Clemson's 2025 season. The Tigers entered the year with high hopes and an equally high No. 4 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll, marking them as serious contenders for a national title -- on paper, at least.

But a third of the way through actual games Clemson looks like a team that will have to battle for bowl eligibility all year long. The Tigers' record dropped to 1-3 with Saturday afternoon's 34-21 home loss to Syracuse .

Clemson fell behind 24-7 with over nine minutes left in the second quarter and never got close to battling back. The Tigers had a couple of opportunities to cut the margin late in the fourth, but quarterback Cade Klubnik tossed one interception on an ill-fated fourth-and-10 conversion attempt and then sailed one past

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