Clemson football: 3 things must be done to avoid Halloween scare vs BC

The Clemson football must do these three things to avoid Halloween scare vs. Boston College

The Clemson football team enters the matchup against Boston College as a massive 31.5-point favorite, but that doesn’t mean this game will be a blowout.

The Tigers were 46.5-point favorites just a week ago against the Syracuse Orange and that game never really got out of hand until the fourth quarter. In many ways, Clemson football fans could be in for a similar type of matchup this weekend.

In addition to playing a promising young team with talent, this game will be played on Halloween and we all know that weird things just seem to happen on Halloween. If that wasn’t weird enough already, the Tigers will now be without star QB Trevor Lawrence- who has tested positive for COVID-19.

Here are three things Clemson football must do to avoid a scare against the Boston College Eagles.

3. Get the offense going

The first objective is pretty simple: Get the offense going.

The Tiger offense has been inconsistent at times this season, but things looked as if they were turning around against both Miami and Georgia Tech where the unit just went off. Unfortunately, the offense creeped back into its inconsistent phase against Syracuse last weekend.

It’s not to say that they were bad (the unit did score 40 of the 47 points the Tigers tallied) but there were just too many times where they couldn’t get anything going. Passes from Trevor Lawrence were inaccurate at times. Travis Etienne wasn’t able to establish an explosive rush.

Now, Clemson won’t have Lawrence and it will be freshman D.J. Uiagalelei stepping into his place. Can the Tigers get something going with the freshman at quarterback? Will they trust him to be able to throw the ball or will they go with a run-heavy attack?

Either way, you’ve got to somehow activate the offense.