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Forde-Yard Dash: Dabo Swinney's FSU Game Comments Miss the Mark

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where you only realize how important your best long snapper is when the backup is sailing one 30 yards the wrong direction:

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SECOND QUARTER: CAUTION OR CHICKEN?

We have reached the stage of this patchwork pandemic season where games are being lost (and perhaps found) in a matter of hours. Along with the drop-a-game, add-a-game scheduling throes has come a predictable side effect: accusing programs of ducking contests because they’re scared of losing.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney (11), no stranger to ill-informed or unwise comments, took direct aim at Florida State (12) on Sunday and blasted away at the Seminoles for calling off their game with the Tigers on Saturday morning.