Dabo rants about unfair treatment by CFP: 'They don't want us there'

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney suggested that his team is being held to an unfair standard in the College Football Playoff race after it blew out South Carolina 38-3 on Saturday.

"Obviously, if we lose this game, they are going to kick us out," said Swinney about the importance of the win over the in-state rival, per ESPN's Chris Low. "They don't want us there anyway. We'd drop to 20 (had Clemson lost to South Carolina). Georgia loses to this very same team, and it's, 'How do we keep Georgia in?'"

After a 21-20 victory over North Carolina on Sept. 28, the defending national champions have now won seven straight by at least 31 points.

The undefeated Tigers, who will face Virginia next week for the ACC championship, were third in the most recent CFP rankings behind Ohio State and LSU.

Swinney believes Clemson is being punished for its narrow win against North Carolina and the perception that the ACC is a weak conference.

"At the end of the day, it's not my job to build a good league. It's my job to build a good program, and I think we've done a nice job of that for a long time," Swinney said. "This team has gone 12-0. In 124 years of Clemson football, and that's the fourth time ever - 1981, 2015, 2018 and 2019. It's hard to do, and there's only three undefeated teams in America.

"So if it was easy to be undefeated, how come there's not more than three? There's some other weak leagues, as people say. How come they ain't undefeated?"