Clemson coach Dabo Swinney gives first thoughts on opening CFP game against Texas
▪ Swinney’s trip out to Austin to shadow then-Texas coach Mack Brown in February 2009, entering his first year as Clemson’s full-time head coach at age 39, was “life-changing.” He took his entire staff down and spent hours picking Brown’s brain. He still has seven to nine pages of notes from the visit. “That time was transformational.”