{"id":630699,"date":"2026-03-04T03:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/630699\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:42:15","slug":"the-clemson-insider-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/630699\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clemson Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who will be coaching Clemson five seasons from now?<\/p>\n

This national outlet doesn\u2019t think it will be Dabo Swinney.<\/p>\n

The Athletic predicted the head coach for each Power 4 program in 2030.<\/a><\/p>\n

For Clemson, the Tigers\u2019 projected coach in 2030 is \u2026 current SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a complicated time to assess both Swinney and Clemson, with the program coming off its worst season in almost two decades,\u201d The Athletic\u2019s Ralph D. Russo wrote. \u201cLashlee seems like a perfect fit, but there is a very real question about whether Clemson would be a clear upgrade from SMU for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lashlee is heading into his fifth season in charge of the SMU program in 2026. He has a career head coaching record of 38-16, the most wins for a head coach in his first four years in program history. His 31 wins from 2023-25 are tied for the most over three years in program history.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Lashlee led SMU to an ACC Championship Game appearance against Clemson and a College Football Playoff berth against Penn State. In 2025, Lashlee\u2019s Mustangs went 9-4, highlighted by the program recording its first top-10 victory since 1983 with an overtime win at home against No.10 Miami, the national runner-up. SMU also went undefeated at home in conference games for a third straight year, and earned its first bowl victory since 2012 with a win over No. 17 Arizona in the Holiday Bowl.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Swinney is entering his 19th season (and 18th full season) as Clemson\u2019s head coach in 2026.<\/p>\n

Swinney has a career head coaching record of 187-53. He is Clemson\u2019s all-time winningest coach, the winningest coach in ACC history and the first coach to lead the Tigers to multiple national championships. The Tigers have won nine ACC titles under Swinney, including eight in the last 11 seasons, while he has guided Clemson to seven College Football Playoff appearances.<\/p>\n

Swinney and Georgia\u2019s Kirby Smart are the only active coaches with multiple national titles. In 13 of the last 15 years, Swinney\u2019s Clemson program has won 10-plus games.<\/p>\n

However, Swinney\u2019s Tigers head into the upcoming campaign hoping to bounce back from a 7-6 record in 2025, the second-worst season in Swinney\u2019s tenure at Clemson.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports recently ranked the\u00a010 college football coaches \u201cunder the most pressure\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in 2026, including Swinney.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports also recently published an\u00a0article on the college football coaching carousel<\/a>, and Swinney was listed among 25 coaches \u201cto keep an eye on when the carousel starts spinning in 2026\u201d and who \u201ccould be on the move after the 2026 season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee and Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney after the Tigers\u2019 35-24 loss to SMU on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C.<\/strong> (Bart Boatwright\/The Clemson Insider)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who will be coaching Clemson five seasons from now? This national outlet doesn\u2019t think it will be Dabo…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":630700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[19416,1318,19419,7130,1317,1315,1316,19417,62,19418,67,132,68,15613],"class_list":{"0":"post-630699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-clemson-insider-podcast","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gymnastics","11":"tag-hero","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-noonan","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-track-and-field","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116168841321407639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}