{"id":268700,"date":"2025-08-07T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/268700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:58:11","slug":"the-clemson-insider-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/268700\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clemson Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEMSON \u2014 Dabo Swinney was in the middle of an interview with former ACCN analyst Eric Mac Lain on Wednesday when he received a text message from a friend about an article that basically said the Clemson coach \u201cPredicts this year\u2019s team to go 16-0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swinney quickly showed the message to Ross Taylor, Clemson Football\u2019s head of communications, and asked, \u201cWhat are they talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the most click-bait bull crap that I have ever seen in my life,\u201d Swinney said after practice on Wednesday. \u201cYou talk about taking something out of context. I have no idea who wrote it. It is just the way it goes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is so out of context. I have never said this team is going\u2026I have said we were the first 15-0 team and I believe we can be the first 16-0 team. Why not? Let\u2019s go do it, and I said, \u2018it is a race to do that.\u2019 Boy, somebody writes some jacked up click-bait article.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the article that was aggregated was not revealed in Swinney\u2019s rant, it was written based on Swinney\u2019s comments to Chris Low in an article published on Aug. 4 on ESPN.com. In the article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/45894446\/clemson-dabo-swinney-poised-get-back-top-college-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clemson, Dabo Swinney poised to get back on top of college football<\/a>, Swinney made a bullish prediction for the future of Clemson Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had one undefeated team,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cIn 2018, we were the first 15-0 team in the history of major college football \u2014 ever. And I think we\u2019re going to be the first 16-0 team. It\u2019s a race to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Swinney was not saying the 2025 team is definitely going to do it, he was just saying the Clemson program in general, whether it is this year or sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what an aggregator is, but whatever. I mean, come on man. Can we just get something accurate,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cYeah, I do believe we can be the first 16-0 team. We are the first 15-0 team, so why would I not believe that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never said this team is going 16-0, like some jackleg who tries to create some article or followers on his twitter account or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swinney finished by saying, \u2018Why not us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody has to be the first, so why not us. Why not? Somebody is going to do it, so it is a race to do it,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe we can do it. I don\u2019t know if this team can do it. Ask me in January. We will find out. 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