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Swinney on Gamecocks: This game isn't any more important to them than it is us

CLEMSON – Clemson faces off against arch-rival South Carolina at 12:01 p.m. Saturday in Columbia’s Williams-Brice Stadium, and the teams are headed in different directions.

The Tigers are undefeated at 11-0 and sit atop the national rankings while South Carolina is 3-8 and is coming off a loss to The Citadel last weekend. One train of thought is that South Carolina might treat this game with even more incentive than normal and have a little more want-to than the Tigers, but head coach Dabo Swinney scoffs at that notion.

“It's funny. They said it last week - this is their national championship game was the rhetoric from Wake Forest.