By Alex Maminakis
Courtesy The Journal

alex@upstatetoday.com

CLEMSON — Two national championships in the past three years.

Four straight ACC titles.

Eight consecutive 10-plus-win seasons, with four straight College Football Playoff appearances, including a perfect 15-0 campaign last season.

It’s been quite a run of success on the gridiron in recent years for the Clemson Tigers — historical, in fact — and there’s no reason to believe the Tigers will be slowing down any time soon.

Head coach Dabo Swinney said the day after Clemson’s 44-16 romp over Alabama in the national championship game in January that his program was “a long way from a dynasty.”

But with the Tigers ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press preseason poll for the first time in program history and continuing to stack up highly ranked recruiting classes, the dawn of the Clemson dynasty may be on the horizon.

Swinney, however, is more focused on the present than anything else, with the defending national champions set to kick off the 2019 season Thursday night against Georgia Tech, and he and the Tigers are hungry for much more, without ever resting on their

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