Dabo Swinney has a lot of memories of the last time Clemson and Georgia met, and not many of them are pleasant.
“We just didn’t have a good day,” the Tigers’ coach recalled.
The teams’ season-opening clash on Sept. 4 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte will come seven years after their most recent matchup in 2014. That’s when the Tigers wore down late on a muggy Saturday night en route to a 45-21 loss inside Georgia’s Sanford Stadium.
But a phone call from a rival coach lightened Swinney’s mood.
Once Swinney got around to checking his phone after the loss, he saw he had a voicemail from Steve Spurrier, then the head coach at South Carolina.