Since Clemson first met Alabama in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship Game, the continuity on both coaching staffs are night and day.
Of the Tigers’ on-field coaches, Dabo Swinney has lost just two assistant coaches since that first encounter.
Those two assistants were defensive ends coach Marion Hobby and defensive tackles coach Dan Brooks. Both left after Clemson won the 2016 National Championship. Hobby went back to the NFL to coach, Brooks retired after a 40-year career.
At Alabama, all but two of the coaches on the field that night at the University of Phoenix Stadium in 2016 are gone.