Dabo Swinney has plenty of experience with the Alabama-Auburn rivalry, as well as Clemson-South Carolina.
Swinney spent 13 seasons either playing or coaching in the Iron Bowl for Alabama, and he is set to coach in the Clemson-USC game for the 15th time Saturday night in Columbia.
There is no doubt that the matchup between Alabama and Auburn is more nationally known, and the Iron Bowl usually has bigger implications, but as far as intensity and emotion, Swinney said during his Tuesday press conference that the two rivalries are extremely similar.
“I lived in Alabama for 33 years and that’s all I knew.