Despite being unable to finish spring practice and despite his players spending the last three weeks, and no one knows how much longer, in isolation, Dabo Swinney says the 2020 Clemson Tigers are ahead of his 2019 team at this point in time.
Unlike most football programs around the country, Clemson was able to get in nine of the 15 practices the NCAA allows for spring practice prior to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. In those nine practices, the Tigers were able to get in a mini-scrimmage and a full stadium scrimmage at Memorial Stadium.
After Clemson broke for spring break on March 12, the university closed the campus through the rest of the spring semester and the ACC canceled all organized activities for the rest of the 2019-’20 academic year.