Upsets happen in college football, which is what makes the game fun, but Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables respects the game too much to allow his defense to lose focus and allow an upset to happen.
Venables has a different mindset when it comes to preparing for games and preventing the unlikely to happen. To him, the game is a math problem that he is trying to solve.
“I’m very systematic. If you do X,Y, Z, this is going to be the result that you get,” he said. “I’m very much a believer in the process and the preparation, and what you see every day and throughout the week.