Swinney Notebook: What you need to know after The Citadel game

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney met with the media following the top-ranked Tigers’ 49-0 rout over The Citadel on Saturday at Death Valley and covered a variety of topics.

Here are some of the main notables from Swinney’s postgame press conference:

Historic day for the offense, defense. Clemson scored 49 first-half points, its most in the first two quarters of play since scoring 49 against Temple in a 63-9 victory on Oct. 12, 2006. Previously, Clemson’s most first-half points in the Swinney era was 45 against Ball State in 2012 and against South Carolina State in 2016.

“Just really, really proud of what the offense looked like with our first group,” Swinney said.

On the other side of the ball,…