This time last year, Clemson was in the middle of its 10-week stretch without a break. The Tigers bye week came following its Week 3 win at Louisville on a Thursday night. They had a 16-day rest before hosting Notre Dame, and then after that it was 10 straight weeks of football.
“Last year, in my mind, I’m like, okay, we’re going to have to play ten straight games, and we were a team that didn’t have a lot of depth on defense last year, competitive depth,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said. “So it was a grind and we kind of limped to the finish line a little bit.