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10 years later, Swinney still believes ‘the best is yet to come’

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It was about this time in 2010 when Dabo Swinney said “this is about to be the best decade in Clemson history.”

At the time, though fans wanted to believe it, but most did not. But Swinney believed it and as we have all learned that is all that matters.

Clemson has a 116-22 record in the decade of the 2010s. That computes to an .840 winning percentage, the best for any decade in school history and the ufb01rst time Clemson has won more than 80 percent in a single decade.

In the 1980s, Clemson had a .