Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney celebrates his 50th birthday today.
Swinney has obviously had a lot of success at Clemson, including on or right after his birthday. The Tigers are 9-2 during Swinney’s birthday, including six straight victories.
Clemson has played just once on Swinney’s birthday. On his 41st birthday, the Tigers went on and demolished Wake Forest, 30-10, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Though Swinney will say everyone of his 127 wins are big to him, he has actually never had one milestone victory on or around his birthday. The Tigers’ 34-21 victory over Virginia following his 40th birthday in 2009 clinched Clemson’s first Atlantic Division Championship, the first of many hurdles the Tigers have jumped on their way to becoming one of the two best programs in college football.