Here's Clemson's greatness, the only threat to Alabama's perfection | Bleacher's report

Dabo Swinney and Christian WilkinsRichard Shiro / Associated Press

We interrupt your usual glorification of Tua Tagovailoa, Nick Saban and all of Alabama football to convey to you an important message: the Clemson Tigers pose a serious threat to win the college football game.

This could be a little shocking, as we have spent the last 11 weeks claiming that Crimson Tide was perhaps the biggest team ever assembled. Clemson fans must feel like Jan Brady, mumbling: "All I hear all day at school, is how much Alabama has done this brilliantly or that how wonderful Alabama has done in Alabama, Alabama, Alabama! "

But get up, Tigers, because everything is about your talent.

Saturday's 27-7 win at Boston College secured Clemson's spot at the ACC Championship game, where he will likely face Pittsburgh on Dec. 1 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Virginia is also a possibility. In any case, the Tigers could be favored by more than three touchdowns.–as they should be in their remaining regular season competitions against Duke and South Carolina.

Anything can happen, but it seems like the next three weeks are a formality before Clemson manages to put the # 1 or # 2 seed in the playoffs. So it's not time to think about the Tigers competitor in this last quartet.

Austin Bryant, Clelin Ferrell and Dexter LawrenceMike Comer / Getty Images

First of all, Clemson's defense is out of this world. That's what everyone had expected since the return of Christian Wilkins, Austin Bryant and Clelin Ferrell for an extra season. But it was not until early October that this D began to bite forever.

Five consecutive opponents failed to score an offensive touch in the first three quarters against Clemson. It could easily be said that this is a more impressive feat than the Alabama consecutive white game against two of the SEC's worst attacks.

Boston College scored a goal on a volley in the first half and Louisville kicked home after Clemson's ninth touchdown in the November 3 game. That's it, though. And even with these two special incidents, the Tigers led all five opponents with a combined score of 215-22 after three.

We insist on the first three quarters because things get so out of control by the fourth that the Tigers generally invest in the reserves, drop the gasoline and allow a meaningless TD. (This went against NC State, Louisville and Florida State.) But the defense of the first team has not allowed a goal since September.

By winning the Atlantic Division of ACC Saturday night, Clemson limited Boston College to a total offense of only 61 yards and six first tries in the first three quarters. The Eagles eclipsed the century mark before the end of the fourth quarter, but they could not win 2.0 yards per game. It was not an easy task for a team that averaged 37.2 points in their first nine games.

Daren Stoltzfus of ABC News 4 in Charleston, South Carolina, pretty much sums up Clemson's defense effort on Twitter:

Formerly a Heisman Trophy nominee, AJ Dillon made a long nine-meter run against Clemson's seventh-place finish.

Signalman Anthony Brown was eliminated from the match after a knee injury, but does anyone think he would have made a difference? Brown has scorched for 200 yards in his last six games, and the troubled quarterbacks are not finding their pace against a defense like this.

Heck, even the quarters that go into the hot red are getting colder by this defense. Sam Hartman of Wake Forest made four touchdowns the week before facing the Tigers. Ryan Finley of NC State and Deondre Francois of Florida State had at least 300 passing yards and two touchdowns at "Clemson Eve". Yet this trio combined four interceptions with a TD.

Since the match of week 2 against Texas A & M, in which Kellen Mond would have unveiled major flaws in Clemson high school, the Tigers have allowed only two touchdowns in eight fights.

They also dominated the country in the yards permitted by 2.08, so good luck, nothing to do against them.

And Clemson's offense has been almost as unstoppable as his defense is impenetrable.

Trevor LawrenceChuck Burton / Associated Press

The Tigers never really caught fire during a freezing cold night in Boston, but they still bent their muscles. Immediately following the aforementioned kickoff return for a team from British Columbia, Wunderkind Trevor Lawrence made his seven pass attempts on a touchdown practice. He subsequently added the first touchdown of his career and finished with 295 yards.

Before being taken away from its geographical and climatic comfort zone–Lawrence said he had never been north of Virginia before this November trip to Massachusetts– He led the Tigers to 204 points scored in their last four games.

While the Louisville and Wake Forest defenses are not really good barometers of success against Alabama or Michigan, it is not Clemson's fault that the CCA has offered no resistance. last time. The Tigers continue to dominate behind the combination of the sensational first-year quarterback and the country's best rush attack.

On the eve of the 11th week, Travis Etienne, Tavien Feaster and Co. led the country in yards per race to 6.94.

It may seem counterintuitive, but Clemson has become an even better team, moving from quarterback Kelly Bryant to double threat to a smuggler in Lawrence. The rookie's ability to stretch the field makes it easier for the backs to find holes in the top seven. And with Clemson speedsters, giving an inch is like giving a mile.

Of course, everything is in tune with the times until the Tigers meet Alabama in the playoffs for the fourth season in a row. Each fanbase can satisfy all that it wants about the dominance by the statistics and the greatness of all time, but it will have to finally solve the problem on the ground.

Just be aware that Clemson will be ready for the challenge.

The 2018 season is no longer a contest to determine who will have the honor of being dismantled by Alabama.

It's a two-horse race that the Tigers could win.

Kerry Miller covers college football and college basketball for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter, @kerrancejames.