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On Saturday, Clemson turned the ball over four times, trailed by as much as 14, benched its starting QB and won. That, Dabo Swinney said, is the headline.

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No, don't ask about that QB controversy. It doesn't exist. Figment of your imagination. Swinney is essentially Kevin Bacon at the end of "Animal House," standing in the midst of a stampede and yelling, "All is well!"

Swinney spent the entire offseason hyping DJ Uiagalelei, despite his struggles in 2021. The coach has spent the first seven weeks of this season dishing out one "I told you so" after another, including as recently as last week, when he called doubts of Uiagalelei "embarrassing" and a product of "the world we live in now.