A day after his team's worst loss in more than a decade, Dabo Swinney was feeling optimistic.
This is unsurprising for two reasons. The first is that Swinney had watched the film of Clemson's 34-3 drubbing at the hands of top-ranked Georgia and saw a team that, according to him, matched Georgia physically and lost, in large part, due to a handful of unforced errors and an inability to capture any "momentum."
The second is that Swinney is unapologetically optimistic in even the most dire of circumstances. Recall the last time Clemson lost in such emphatic fashion -- a 54-14 embarrassment at home to eventual national champion Florida State in 2013, when Swinney's postgame analysis approached delirium: "If we played them 10 times," he said, "we'd have won five.