Happy Saturday, Tiger Nation! Here is today’s Clemson Tigers News.
Scoreboard
Clemson Volleyball defeats Middle Tennessee 3-1: The Tigers dropped the first set 18-25 before winning three in a row (29-27, 25-18, 25-16).
Kennedy Wagner had 15 kills and Azyah Dailey had 12 kills.
Sammy Brown is that guy
Clemson Football recruit Sammy Brown played in South Carolina last night as Jefferson visited Wren.
Jefferson won 30-14 behind a monster night from Brown on both sides of the ball.
Brown had a sack and over twelve tackles on defense. He had 130 rushing yards and two touchdowns on offense.
Five-star 2024 Clemson LB commit Sammy Brown with a rushing TD for Jefferson and I nearly had the battle scars to prove it. Probably has eight or so tackles, too pic.twitter.com/3zGbQp2Sx6
— Chapel Fowler (@chapelfowler) August 26, 2023
To top it off, he punted three times for 152 yards, and all three pinned Wren inside their own ten.
Outside of playing LB and RB, apparently Brown is a punter, too. Just pinned Wren at its own 4-yard line lol https://t.co/UcJgWdtopW
— Chapel Fowler (@chapelfowler) August 26, 2023
It’s not surprising that Brown wears the No. 1 on his jersey. He is a do-everything phenom that is going to be very exciting for Clemson fans to watch in 2024.
Clemson Football one of few teams to sit atop the AP Top 25 in CFP era
CFB Kings Twitter account posted this accounting of the teams that have been ranked 1st in the AP Top 25 since 2014, when the College Football Playoff began.
Surprisingly, only seven programs have achieved No. 1, and Clemson Football is among them.
Each Power 5 team’s highest AP poll ranking in the CFP era (since 2014).
— CFB Kings (@CFBKings) August 21, 2023
RT if your team’s been ranked: pic.twitter.com/c0b08lLaB3
Most of the others are no-brainers: Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and LSU. Florida State was ranked No. 1 during the 2014 season when Jameis Winston was their quarterback.
The only unexpected name was Mississippi State, which holds the distinction of being the first team to be No. 1 in a CFP Top 25.
ESPN’s David Hale shared this list of returning running backs who had thirty or more rushes of 10+ yards in 2022, and Clemson Football’s Will Shipley is sixth on the list.
https://twitter.com/ADavidHaleJoint/status/1694721695465316409?s=20
Congratulations to Clemson Men’s Soccer’s Alex Meinhard who was named to the Hermann Trophy Watchlist, an award given to the top men’s and women’s soccer players in the nation.
https://twitter.com/ClemsonMSoccer/status/1695101730290364856?s=20