ESPN believes Clemson's offensive future is bleak.

It's never been harder to predict where a team will be from one season to the next. With the Transfer Portal busier than Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and NIL deals booming, a team can completely flip its fortune in one offseason.

Clemson is one of the few schools in the country that doesn't lean on the portal to fill gaps on their depth chart. Over the past three seasons, the Tigers have only taken 3 players out of the portal: 2 backup quarterbacks and wide receiver Blackmon Huckabee from Furman. Per ESPN's Adam Rittenberg, Clemson may have fallen behind the times, as he didn't include Clemson in the top 25 of his offensive College football Future Power Rankings.

While being ranked behind teams like Ohio State, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama is understandable, it has to be a hard pill for Clemson fans to swallow to see teams like SMU, Western Kentucky, and Wake Forest on the list.

Now, the past two seasons for Clemson's offense haven't been great. In 2021, the Tigers averaged just 26.3 points per game, good for 82nd in the country. However, in 2022, they saw a big improvement, up to 33.2, which ranked 30th, just behind Ole Miss.

This past offseason, the Tigers brought in TCU OC Garrett Riley to take over the offensive and the spring showed a lot of promise for what quarterback Cade Klubnik can do as the full-time starter. With that said, it's hard to imagine an offense designed by Riley that features Klubnik, Will Shipley and Phil Mafah, Antonio Williams and Beaux Collins, and four returning starters on the offensive line won't succeed.

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