The age of COVID is changing the way many college head coaches go about their business, and a lot of them are finding out or will find out that Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney’s is the best way.
Swinney played 96 players last Saturday, the third-highest total in Clemson history – the record is the 111 played against Charlotte last season.
Clemson played an average of 72.5 players per game in the National Championship season of 2018, the most of any team in the AP Top 25. No other College Football Playoff participant averaged more than 56 players per game (Alabama, 55.