CLEMSON — Dabo Swinney has spent enough time around Tim Bourret to know he doesn’t speak out of turn.

“Clemson Google,” as the longtime sports information director is lovingly known, has a mind filled with facts, including the Tigers’ win-loss record in certain uniform combos. But the bespectacled Notre Dame grad, who joined Clemson’s athletic department in 1978, serving as Swinney’s first PR advisor, isn’t very cocky.

Not until Nov. 8 at least. Because the date of Clemson’s game with Florida State happened to also be the day Bourret was being inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame along with the likes of DeAndre Hopkins and Chester McGlockton.

There was no way, Bourret said, the Tigers could lose that day.

“I felt pretty good. Tim don't talk a lot of trash,” Swinney

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