FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Some of Dabo Swinney’s best memories, and worst, have come at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium. And though beating Ohio State in the 2014 Orange Bowl was a special night for Clemson’s seventh-year head coach perhaps the most important in his tenure came exactly six years ago this Saturday.
In his first three attempts at beating a ranked opponent, Swinney came close, but his teams could not get over the hump.
In 2008 against No. 24 Florida State, the Tigers held their own but fell short, 41-27, in Tallahassee, Fla. The next year, against No.