No. 12 Clemson can not seem to get out of its personal manner — generally actually. A crew bus reportedly crashed into a light-weight pole in Atlanta on Saturday morning whereas leaving the resort forward of the Week 3 matchup towards Georgia Tech, in response to David Hood of TigerNet.com. Whereas no accidents had been reported, the aspect of the bus did not escape with out some seen injury to the provider doorways.
The Tigers nonetheless managed to make it into Bobby Dodd Stadium in time for kickoff, however the incident solely added to the rising record of Clemson mishaps early within the season.
Sadly for coach Dabo Swinney’s squad, this wasn’t the primary time this system has had points operating into issues — each on and off the sphere. Simply two weeks in the past, Clemson dropped a tightly contested 17-10 season opener to LSU, a sport with early College Football Playoff implications. The on-field setback was compounded by a sequence of unusual accidents at Memorial Stadium.
The LSU gear truck by chance collided with a storage door on its manner out, abandoning bent steel and dents. To make issues worse, a malfunction with the stadium fireworks present set off a small fireplace on the videoboard throughout the sport, sending flames and smoke into the air in what felt like an ominous signal for the Tigers.
Quick ahead to Atlanta, and Clemson is actually crashing into gentle poles hours earlier than kickoff.
Symbolic or not, the bumps hold piling up, and the product on the sphere hasn’t impressed a lot confidence, both. Between bus accidents, stadium fires and early season losses, the Tigers’ path to playoff competition is already trying extra like an impediment course than a easy journey.
