Clemson Football: Areas of improvement

Where the Clemson Tigers need to tighten up in the final few weeks of the season.

Areas Clemson needs to improve during the second half of the season:

Starting off with coaching, offensive coordinator Garrett Riley was considered a homerun hire this past off-season around the college football world coming from the no. 10 ranked total offense at TCU. Now, six weeks in, Clemson ranked 36h in total offense. The offense has looked like an offense that could put up points in a hurry and has also looked like an offense that could lose the game for their team at any point.

Clemson offensive coordinator Garrett Riley / David Platt - Clemson Athletics

Another component of this team that needs to be improved is the second-half performance. In the first half, it seems the Tigers will get the wheels turning but in the second half that is where things start to slow down. In the six games so far this season, Clemson has scored 110 points in the first half to the 83 points scored in the second half of games. Against Florida State, the Tigers only mustered seven points in the final two quarters and overtime. 

Coming into this year, Clemson fans expected Adam Randall to put up WR1 numbers and become a household name in the ACC, but instead, we have Tyler Brown and Beaux Collins becoming a nice 1-2 punch in the air. Injuries have obviously taken their toll, but a healthy Adam Randall could be a difference-maker.