Dabo Swinney makes hilarious suggestion to improve ESPN College GameDay

ESPN College GameDay has taken on a new look in 2024, with former Alabama coach Nick Saban taking a spot on the desk with the rest of the crew. And Dabo Swinney had a suggestion for how GameDay could improve on Saturday.

During a call-in segment from the field in Atlanta, Swinney went into some pertinent advice for the flagship college football program.

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“Yeah, I’ve got one suggestion for GameDay that I think could take y’all to new levels,” Swinney said, building some suspense. “It’s going to take Coach Saban a little while to settle in, but he’s a natural. Y’all know that. He’s already made y’all better.”

Saban has indeed made the set better, bringing a unique angle for insight as a recently retired coach. He’s hit on NIL, the transfer portal and some other changes to the sport, cluing fans in on the inner workings.

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But is there more Saban could be doing? Swinney thinks so and said as much on ESPN College Gameday.

“If y’all can at some point during the year get him on set with a Pat McAfee tank top side by side, then it’s over,” Swinney said with a huge grin. “It’s over. That’s the only thing. He’ll get there. He’ll get there.”

Clemson working on red zone, turnovers

One of the insights Saban provided on ESPN College GameDay on Saturday morning was into why Clemson had such a tough year in 2023.

The Tigers turned it over a lot and were poor in the red zone. Not exactly a recipe for success. But Swinney said his team has worked on those things quite a bit, and he’s confident they’ll be ready perform better in the season opener against No. 1 Georgia.

“We’ve worked really hard on it and you’re exactly right, when we’ve been a great team around here we’ve held out in the red zone,” Swinney said. “Then we finished in the red zone offensively, and we were really poor at that last year. We were 15th in first downs, so yeah we got a lot of yards, a lot of first downs. We were like 120th in red zone scoring. Turnovers, missed kicks, blocked kicks, missed assignments. So we’ve got to be better.

“If we’re going to finish like we want to finish that is where you have to ultimately finish, and that’s in the red zone. We feel good about our preparation. Obviously we’ve got a great, great opponent today, not a lot of room for error, but we’re ready for the challenge.”

Clemson and Georgia will kick off at noon ET on ABC.