Clemson had just won its third national championship Monday night in a rout of Alabama, but head coach Dabo Swinney wasn’t interested in staying in the spotlight.
“All the credit – all the glory – goes to the good Lord,” Swinney said during a nationally televised postgame interview.
The Tigers defeated the favored Crimson Tide 44-16 for their second national title in three years. Clemson also because the first college football team to finish 15-0.
Swinney has built the program into a powerhouse. He was named interim coach six games into the 2008 season when former coach Tommy Bowden resigned after a 3-3 start. At the time, Swinney was the wide receivers coach. He was named head coach after the Tigers defeated rival South Carolina that year to become bowl eligible.
Clemson slowly climbed the college football ladder under Swinney, finishing 9-5 in 2009, 6-7 in 2010 and then 10-4 in 2011, when the Tigers won their first ACC title since 1991.
The Tigers have won at least 10 games eight straight seasons. They’ve also won four straight conference titles and have played in the College Football Playoff all four of those seasons.
“You can’t write a Hollywood script like this,” Swinney said, referencing his rise from a wide receivers coach to a successful head coach. Prior to coaching at Clemson, he worked in real estate….
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