A look at Clemson’s complete 2018 football schedule

Clemson will try to reach the College Football Playoff for the fourth consecutive season in 2018.

Clemson plays eight bowl teams who finished with winning records in 2017 according to the 2018 football schedule released by the Atlantic Coast Conference Wednesday. The slate also includes a pair of non-conference games against SEC teams for the eighth time in the last nine years.

The schedule is unusual in that Clemson will not have consecutive home games until the last two games of the season, the first time that has happened since 1986 when the Tigers had just five home games. The schedule alternates home and away games for the first 11 games of the season, a first in school history.

Dabo Swinney’s Tigers will play all 12 of their regular season games on Saturdays for the first time since 2015 and for just the second time in the last seven years. The open date is on October 13, in the middle of the schedule.

The Tigers go on the road to face Texas A&M at Kyle Field, a venue that holds over 100,000 fans. It will be Clemson’s first trip to Texas A&M since 2004 when the Aggies defeated the Tigers, 27-6. Clemson won the last meeting 25-24 at Death Valley on a last second field goal by Jad Dean.

Here is the path the Tigers will face:

Sept. 1 FURMAN

Sept. 8 at Texas A&M

Sept. 15 GEORGIA SOUTHERN

Sept. 22 at Georgia Tech

Sept. 29 SYRACUSE

Oct. 6 at Wake Forest

Oct. 20 NC STATE

Oct. 27 at Florida State

Nov. 3 LOUISVILLE

Nov. 10 at Boston College

Nov. 17 DUKE

Nov. 24 SOUTH CAROLINA

This story was originally published January 17, 2018 at 2:04 PM with the headline "A look at Clemson’s complete 2018 football schedule."