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Clemson's unlikely rise to elite of college football starts with Dabo Swinney

SportsPulse: From Nick Saban to Dabo Swinney, here are the best soundbites from the National Championship media day. USA TODAY

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – There are times when the parallel seems rather obvious to someone who knows. Tommy Bowden has watched Clemson’s rise from the perspective of the coach who was asked to leave – and then things took off – and so that can’t be easy. But he also sees what Dabo Swinney has done in a decade.

And yeah, it feels more than a little like what Bowden saw unfold a couple of decades earlier at Florida State.