Dabo Swinney

Preseason 2026 college football hot takes are supposed to play it safe, pick the 4 teams everybody already has in their top 5, name a Heisman favorite the whole country already knows, call it a day and move on, and I’m not doing any of that. Here are 5 things I actually believe are going...

Four of the five coaches on this list are still employed because their schools can’t afford to fire them right now. That’s what the college football hot seat 2026 actually is: programs trapped by their own contracts, counting down to the year the buyout gets cheap enough to pull the trigger. The obvious name is...

If Clemson is “family,” why do the biggest paychecks get cut first? Clemson just moved on from OC Garrett Riley and assistant Mickey Conn after a 7-6 season. Dabo’s explanation was the classic clean-up line: “We just did not get the production and the results that we needed.” ESPN says Riley and Conn will not...

Dabo Swinney didn’t scream. Didn’t storm off. Didn’t cry into his polo. He did something better. He walked into that press conference after Clemson starts 1‑2 and basically said: I built this. Don’t even think about replacing me. Everyone watching knew it. This wasn’t a meltdown. This was a chess move. Virginia Tech Just Made...