The coaching clash between Bill Belichick and Dabo Swinney may have lost its luster with North Carolina and Clemson off to disappointing starts, but don’t tell Swinney that.
Swinney said he’s embracing the opportunity to coach against Belichick on Saturday when his Tigers face the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill.
“Yeah, I mean, are you kidding me? It’s amazing,” Swinney said Tuesday. “I mean, I never in my lifetime thought I would get an opportunity to coach against coach Belichick. I mean, how cool is that?”
It marks only the second time in college football history that a coach with multiple national championships will face one with multiple Super Bowl titles. Bill Walsh, a three-time Super Bowl winner with the San Francisco 49ers, led Stanford against two-time champion Joe Paterno and Penn State in the Blockbuster Bowl on Jan. 1, 1993.
The spectacle of Belichick’s arrival at the college level has commanded a national spotlight.