Greg McElroy\u2019s Always College Football podcast.<\/a> \u201cIt just is what it is, we don\u2019t have the same alumni base that other schools we have played and had to compete with over the years have. That\u2019s just the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\nYet, as Swinney pointed out, the Tigers are 3-1 against Ohio State during his time at Clemon, 2-2 vs. Alabama and 4-2 vs Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
\u201cNotre Dame has their own TV station. They make their own rules. They print their own money. They got like their own money machine in the backyard or something,\u201d Swinney joked.<\/p>\n
Under Swinney, Clemson is 4-0 against Auburn, 2-0 against Texas A&M and 2-0 against Oklahoma. Oh by the way, the Tigers have won two national championships in the process. As he pointed out, those are all programs the Tigers are not supposed to compete with, much less beat on a consistent basis.<\/p>\n
Yes, they have and they have done it over and over again through the years.<\/p>\n
This has been Clemson\u2019s fight since it began playing college football in 1896. The Tigers have always been the underdog, and they embrace it. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more things change the more they stay the same,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cNow, it is just different (in how it is done). We do not have the same NIL budget as some places have. We do not have some of the same built-in resources from an alumni base and all of that type of stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t but guess what? We never have. But you know what we do have? We have enough. We got enough. We just have to be good with what we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
But like Matthew, Mark, Luke and John describe in the Bible, Clemson has enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe may only have five loafs and two fish, but we got enough,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cWe have to bring all we got to the table and use it and be smart. Then we just have to be Clemson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have won here for so long because we have been unique in how we have done things. We just have to continue to be that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEMSON \u2013 The more things change, the more they stay the same for Clemson in college football. What…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":774504,"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-774503","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\/116521068692662603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774503","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=774503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}