Dabo Swinney blasts Florida State, thinks they used COVID-19 as ‘excuse’ not to play

Dabo Swinney is still livid that Clemson-Florida State was postponed.

Of all the people who were disappointed in Clemson’s matchup against Florida State was postponed after the team’s medical staffs couldn’t come to an agreement on if the game should be played, none were more bombastic than Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney. While the official reason given was Florida State being a bit anxious about a player who had tested positive for COVID-19 traveling with Clemson, Dabo thinks that excuse was a cover-up.

Swinney thinks that the postponement was a complete fabrication, as he is deeming this a Clemson win by way of FSU forfeiting, possibly out of a fear the Tigers would dominate the Seminoles on the field.

Dabo Swinney’s Tigers were looking to pick up a win after losing to Notre Dame

As outraged as Dabo might be given the suddenness of the cancellation, his theory of a master plot to avoid having the struggling Seminoles take on a motivated, healthy Tigers team has fallen at the first hurdle. FSU head coach Mike Norvell voiced his own displeasure with the decision, claiming that his group woke up Saturday morning expecting to play.

Clemson fans were eager to connect the dots and assume that the Seminoles didn’t want to get slaughtered by Trevor Lawrence, but angering their own team by postponing the game takes all the credibility out of that theory.

In Dabo’s world, everyone is out to get Clemson despite the fact they are a marquee program with college football’s marquee player at quarterback. As fun as it is to dabble in conspiracy theories about why this game was canceled, the original COVID-19 related version makes sense.

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