Ron Morris gets it right in this article...

I feel that ol' Ronnie from The State, even if we here at LOHD don't like the guy, penned a good article in yesterday's paper.

His last two paragraphs sums it up nicely -

This Tigers’ team might well recover from the Alabama loss and run up big scores against weak ACC competition. Clemson might even win a league championship and play in a BCS bowl game. But all of that is not enough to erase the stigma that Clemson is still not a nationally elite team. It remains a team that excels in a woefully weak league.

Full article HERE