CHARLOTTE — When Dabo Swinney was walking off the field in Tampa, Fla., following Clemson’s heartbreaking loss to Georgia Tech in the 2009 ACC Championship Game, he wondered to himself, “This was not supposed to happen.”
In Swinney’s mind, the Tigers were supposed to win. At the time, Clemson had not won an Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in almost two decades and had not been to the Orange Bowl in almost three decades.
Instead Swinney and the Tigers walked off the field with Georgia Tech fans throwing Oranges onto the field.
“I always tell myself that God never says ‘Oops!