Clemson’s Cornell Powell joins DeAndre Hopkins, Sammy Watkins in exclusive club

Clemson football star receiver Cornell Powell is on fire right now and has joined an exclusive club of former Tigers receivers with his play of late.

Clemson has another superstar at wide receiver in Cornell Powell.

With his third straight 100-yard game for the Clemson Tigers, Powell because the sixth player in school history to accomplish this. The only two players to pull this off during the Dabo Swinney era of Clemson football are DeAndre Hopkins in 2012 and Sammy Watkins in 2013. What great company Powell is now a part of in the Clemson wide receiver family.

Does Clemson have what it takes to win the College Football Playoff?

Clemson controls its own College Football Playoff destiny this year, despite losing on the road to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish up in South Bend a few weeks ago. This is because if Clemson wins out, the Tigers will face the Golden Domers in the ACC Championship game with a playoff berth on the line. As it is every year, it is all about making the four-team field by any means necessary.

So whether Clemson gets in as a No. 2, No. 3 or No. 4 seed, it will have to do so as an ACC Champion. This is because Clemson has no shot of making the field as a two-loss, non-champion with a pair of losses to Notre Dame, one up in South Bend and one in a neutral site over in Charlotte. As long as Powell and the Tigers win in Charlotte over Notre Dame, they will make it in.

Powell will be a big reason the Tigers can win their third national championship in five seasons.

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