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Dabo Swinney: 'Rat Poison' is a reason Clemson's struggling

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Reading too many headlines. Buying too much preseason hype. Ingesting what legendary Alabama coach Nick Saban called “rat poison.”

Are these to blame for No. 12 Clemson’s sluggish 1-1 start to the 2025 season? Dabo Swinney seems to think so. During his Tuesday media address, the Tigers’ head coach was brutally honest about a team that was preseason top five and one of the most talked about national championship contenders.

Through two games, they’ve looked like anything but that. The offense failed to score a touchdown in the second half against LSU in the opener and again in the first half against Troy last Saturday.