The Clemson Tigers, led by Dabo Swinney, are one of the few college football programs this year to remain undefeated. Saturday, the Tigers defeated their in-state rival South Carolina Gamecocks 38-3 in a contest that could just as well have been 55-3.
After the game at his media conference, head coach Dabo Swinney was not a happy man. Not that he wasn’t satisfied with his team’s effort against the Gamecocks. He was. But his disdain was geared more for what the College Football Playoff (CFP) folks have in mind for his program.
It is Swinney’s opinion, that the CFP believes that because Clemson resides in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), that his program somehow has leprosy and therefore should be shunned to some remote island instead of an invitation to the four-team playoff format.