Jim McElwain spent the night tossing and turning unable to sleep. He lay awake worrying about what his team would do on the field.
You can’t blame him; the next day was big, it would be the first time McElwain saw his team in action for their first scrimmage.
“Just not knowing how all those young guys are going to compete the first day on the stage of The Swamp,” McElwain said of what kept him up that night. “Obviously, a lot of those guys are going to have to take a lot of reps for us, right?