{"id":73646,"date":"2024-10-25T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/dan-mullen-predicts-clemson-over-miami-in-acc-title-game-clock-to-strike-midnight-on-hurricanes\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T01:26:10","slug":"dan-mullen-predicts-clemson-over-miami-in-acc-title-game-clock-to-strike-midnight-on-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/dan-mullen-predicts-clemson-over-miami-in-acc-title-game-clock-to-strike-midnight-on-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Mullen predicts Clemson over Miami in ACC title game, clock to \u2018strike midnight\u2019 on Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the sprint to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/category\/college-football-playoff\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Football Playoff<\/a><\/strong> this year, the ACC has been one of the more intriguing leagues. Four teams enter Week 9 undefeated in league play \u2013 including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/smu-mustangs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SMU<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/duke-blue-devils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duke<\/a><\/strong>, who play each other Saturday \u2013\u00a0but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/coach\/dan-mullen-131193\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Mullen<\/a><\/strong> predicted the other two unbeatens to make the conference championship.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime of Friday\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/louisville-cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisville<\/a><\/strong> vs. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/boston-college-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston College<\/a><\/strong> game, Mullen said <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/clemson-tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clemson<\/a><\/strong> would defeat <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/miami-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami<\/a><\/strong> in the conference title game. Although the Tigers got off to a rough start to the year in Week 1 against <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/georgia-bulldogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a><\/strong>, they\u2019ve bounced back well, and it\u2019s enough for the former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a><\/strong> coach to put them in the mix for ACC champion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-my-plugin-jlab-ad-block\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jlab.com\/pages\/college-sports?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_medium=press_release&amp;utm_campaign=college-On3&amp;utm_name=paid&amp;utm_term=Editorial\"><strong><em>JLAB has the best audio products in the game \u2013 and they\u2019re ready to take care of you this football season. Whether you\u2019re traveling to watch your favorite team play or just streaming the game at home.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jlab.com\/pages\/college-sports?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_medium=press_release&amp;utm_campaign=college-On3&amp;utm_name=paid&amp;utm_term=Editorial\"><strong><em>Find the blue box at retailers near you or visit jlab.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As for Miami, the Hurricanes have had a run of close games, and Mullen said that would likely come to an end. He called it a \u201cCinderella\u201d type run, and the clock is nearing midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat field\u2019s deep, right? \u2026 I\u2019m going Clemson,\u201d Mullen said. \u201cClemson, after Week 1 of the season, we watched them go in, we\u2019re expecting a big game against Georgia. They have a good first half, get absolutely decimated in the second half of that game. Scratch your head, maybe they have it going on. Since that day, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/cade-klubnik-16612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cade Klubnik<\/a><\/strong>, the offense, explosive. They\u2019re putting up points, they\u2019re putting up yards, their defense has come to play. They have dominated everyone they have played since that early loss.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-my-plugin-prizepicks-ad-block\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prizepicks.onelink.me\/ivHR\/ON3\"><strong><em>CLICK HERE to go to PrizePicks and use code ON3 to receive a guaranteed $50 once you play $5 in lineups!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think Clemson rolls through the season to get to that title game against Miami, and Clemson gets the win. Miami, the Cinderella story, finally, it\u2019s gonna strike midnight and all these close wins are gonna come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since that loss to Georgia, Clemson has won six straight games and scored at least 28 points in each of those contests. Klubnik has also been impressive this year, taking the leap many hoped he would in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/coach\/garrett-riley-131912\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garrett Riley\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> scheme.<\/p>\n<p>With 20 touchdowns on the year, Klubnik has already surpassed last seasons total while totaling 1,836 passing yards. Clemson\u2019s offense as a whole has also been rolling, averaging 490.4 yards as a unit. That\u2019s second in the ACC only to Miami, which is putting up 577.3 yards per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes \u2013 ranked No. 6 in the latest <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/ap-poll-top-25-college-football-rankings-released-after-week-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP Top 25<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 will face an in-state rival in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida State<\/a><\/strong> this week. It could be an opportunity for Miami to get back on track and end the streak of three straight one-score games, including two decided in the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/dan-mullen-predicts-clemson-over-miami-acc-title-game-clock-strike-midnight-hurricanes\/\">Dan Mullen predicts Clemson over Miami in ACC title game, clock to \u2018strike midnight\u2019 on Hurricanes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the sprint to the College Football Playoff this year, the ACC has been one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}