Dabo's warning: This team playing just as well as 2018 team and getting better

Swinney says his team is ready for the championship phase of the seasonHead coach Dabo Swinney thinks his football team is playing on a par, and better in many areas than the 2018 team that finished with a perfect 15-0 season. The team is also playing its best football of the season.

The Tigers defeated Boston College 59-7 Saturday in Death Valley to improve to 8-0 on the season, the program’s 23rd consecutive win. Clemson has outscored the opposition 149-31 since the open date and played its best game of the season in the win over BC. Swinney said molding a team to play its best football when it counts is what coaching is all about.

“That is called coaching, to me. You have so much to teach…