Clemson Tigers College Football Pregame Quote, 12/27/2022

On the opportunity to play at this level:

BRANDON STREETER: I’m very excited. Just like our team, we’re super excited about being here at the Orange Bowl. I had one opportunity to be here in the past in the 2015 playoffs and it was an awesome experience. Just excited to be part of this thing and it’s been a great week so far still early in the week but just off to a really good start and getting ready to go on Friday.

On the expectation to be in the College Football Playoff and staying motivated:

BRANDON STREETER: Man our guys are very motivated because we got a lot to play for no matter what game we’re in. We’re always going to be very, very motivated that just kind of comes along with our culture. Just to have an opportunity to be in a New Year’s Six bowl game and like I said, just excited about being here and the kids have done a great job of preparing so far. Just very excited and really taken on the challenge and we got a really good opponent that we’re going against. It’s going to be a fun matchup.

On what stands out about Tennessee:

BRANDON STREETER: They’re very multiple and they’re very big upfront. They do a really good job of starting and moving around and trying to create confusion. Then on the back end, they do a really good job of mixing up coverages and post snap recognition is going to be really important for the quarterbacks. Very active defense – they run well, got a lot of speed, so it’ll be a big challenge for us. I mean, they’re very good in tackles for loss. They’re ranked very high in red zone defense, and rush defense, so we’ve been talking about it all week long, just about the challenge that we have against this Tennessee defense.