At the beginning of fall camp, Dabo Swinney dawned a shirt with one message across his shirt: finish.
Maybe he had another item of clothing that read “start.”
Swinney’s recent units have lacked a particular punch that teams in the past used to their advantage. Those quick jolts may have returned.
Following the brutal Georgia opener, Clemson’s last four games have all had something in common: fast starts. The first quarter has been marked by simple dominance in the Tigers' four wins, and that stretch has helped them in different ways.
Against App State and North Carolina State, multi-touchdown leads snuffed out any semblance of hope for the opposition.