CLEMSON - The Gator Bowl is a familiar place for the Tigers, as this is their tenth appearance -- the most out of any bowl they have played. However, for head coach Dabo Swinney, going back to the Gator Bowl feels appropriate as that was his first bowl game as a coach and as a head coach.
“My very first bowl game as a coach was 1993. I was the GA at Alabama, and we played North Carolina. That was my first ever bowl game as a coach, and my very first bowl game as a head coach was in the January of 2009 against Nebraska,” Swinney said.