Prior to last month’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game, Dabo Swinney looked at his Clemson team and told them the best team in the country was sitting right there in that room.
“I told them we have the best team in the country right here,” Swinney recalled Wednesday during his National Signing Day Press Conference. “I told them that all year, ‘and tonight you get the chance to prove it.’
“That is what they did, and they left no doubt.”
Or did they?
It would seem a 44-16 victory over the team everyone in the national media called “the best team ever” would have left no doubt, but in the days and weeks since the Tigers’ impressive victory over Alabama, everyone wanted to know what was wrong with the Crimson Tide, instead of what Clemson had just done.