National college football analyst Josh Pate gave some thoughts on Dabo Swinney and Clemson after a very disappointing 7-6 season in 2025, which was capped off by a 22-10 loss to Penn State in the Pinstripe Bowl this past Saturday.
“Dabo Swinney went 7-6 with a custom-built team… The Pinstripe Bowl runners up, Clemson Tigers. Just one of many sentences, phrases I didn’t expect to be using here in December, but that’s what college football has done to us this year,” Pate said on his college football show.
During his show, Pate fielded the following question from Phillip Moore of Spartanburg, S.