Clemson is playing for the national championship.
I never thought I’d write those words. I still don’t know how it happened, even days later. It wasn’t possible. Big games only came around when a really good team played Clemson. Clemson was never that game people circled on the calendar.
I wrote about all of that a couple of months ago. I still feel that way. I had several “I don’t believe this really happening” conversations with Clemson fans and employees in Miami prior to the game, people who have given a great deal to the program fully aware the 1981 season might go down as a historical fluke.