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Gameday picture · Week 13 · Rivalry

SC at CLEM

Sat, Nov 28 · TBD · Death Valley

Desk line: Clemson −3.5, total 52.5. Palmetto Bowl. Vizzina is the tell — a first-year starter in Death Valley against an SEC veteran. Steal it by running the ball and making him throw.

Spread

SC +3.5

Desk line

Total

52.5

Win

42%

Clemson

desk projection

Gamecocks

Desk implied 25–28 · CLEM −165 / SC +140

Kick weather

54°F

Death Valley November night · lo 36°F

20% precip

Window

TBD

Palmetto Bowl at Death Valley. Kick TBD.

Vizzina's first Palmetto Bowl. Sellers is the veteran.

Unit matchups

Quarterback

SC 8 · 6 CLEM

Sellers vs Christopher Vizzina, first-year starter after Klubnik. Experience gap is SC's.

Offensive line

SC 6 · 7 CLEM

Clemson's front still travels. Peak has to be a veteran by late November.

Receivers

SC 7 · 7 CLEM

Harbor vs Clemson corners. Even, with Harbor the mismatch if isolated.

Front seven

SC 7 · 7 CLEM

Vizzina has 71 career passes. Make him beat you, don't gift it.

Secondary

SC 7 · 7 CLEM

T.J. Moore and Bryant Wesco are the names. Don't bust.

Special teams

SC 7 · 7 CLEM

Death Valley night. Hidden yardage in a one-score rivalry.

Availability

Jayden Sellers WR
Season-ending lower body. Mid-August.
out
Jayden Gibson WR
Season-ending lower body. Oklahoma transfer.
out
Jackson Repp WR
Walk-on, also lost in the same stretch.
out
Jacarrius Peak OT
Knee. Targeted back for the SEC stretch if the Week 3 window holds.
probable
Dylan Stewart EDGE
Back. The tell for every SEC Saturday — if he dresses, the edge grade jumps.
probable
Brady Hunt TE
Full go.
available
LaNorris Sellers QB
Full go. The season walks through him.
available
Nyck Harbor WR
Gravitational center of a thinned room.
available

What the tape says

Make Vizzina beat you. He's a first-year starter with 71 career attempts.
Run it early. Death Valley goes quiet when the Palmetto guest runs the ball.
Harbor isolated. Force Clemson to prove the corner.
Don't gift a short field. Rivalry turnovers travel farther than the number.

History

Palmetto Bowl at Death Valley. Non-conference rivalry that still decides the state.
Christopher Vizzina is Clemson's first new starter since 2023 after Cade Klubnik's eligibility expired.
Sellers vs a first-year ACC starter is the cleanest quarterback edge on the slate.

Roster advantage · vs Clemson

Two-deep is a coin-flip

Starter-vs-starter grades for Dabo Swinney's Clemson.

Net grade

2 SC · 5 even · 1 CLEM

SC edge

LaNorris Sellers

SC 8

Christopher Vizzina

6 CLEM

Vizzina waited behind Klubnik. Sellers is the proven SEC starter.

SC edge

Matt Fuller

SC 7

CLEM committee

6 CLEM

If SC runs it, Vizzina sits and the crowd gets quiet.

Even

Nyck Harbor

SC 7

T.J. Moore

7 CLEM

Even. Isolate Harbor. Don't let Moore beat you over the top.

CLEM edge

Jacarrius Peak

SC 6

CLEM front

7 CLEM

Clemson's identity still lives up front.

EDGE

Even

Dylan Stewart

SC 7

CLEM tackles

7 CLEM

Hunt Vizzina. He has not seen this kind of edge.

Even

G. Brownlow-Dindy

SC 7

CLEM interior

7 CLEM

Even. A push turns this into a Sellers game.

Even

Fred Johnson

SC 7

CLEM skill

7 CLEM

Fits. Don't chase. This is a tackling rivalry.

Even

Vicari Swain

SC 7

Bryant Wesco Jr.

7 CLEM

No busts. Young Clemson skill will take the free play.