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Tigers don’t have to be perfect to win

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney says all the turnovers the last couple of weeks are a huge concern, but there is a silver lining – the Tigers are still 12-0.

“The good news is we are 12-0 so that means we don’t have to play perfect to win,” Swinney said on Tuesday during his weekly press conference. “That’s a positive. Yeah, it stinks. I don’t like losing the turnover margin. Typically, if you have at least two more big plays than your opponent, and you win the turnover margin, you win 98 percent of the time.

“If you look across the country and the team that lost the turnover margin two or three times has lost 16 percent of the time.