Dabo Swinney appears to have coached his way into having the word "interim" removed from his title, so we should expect to see Mark Richt and Dabo Swinney matching wits in Death Valley when the Georgia-Clemson rivalry is renewed in 2013.

Clemson, which traces much of its original tradition to Auburn (Walter Riggs, John Heisman, the "Tiger" nickname, and the color scheme), continues to look to the opposite side of the Iron Bowl rivalry for the perpetuation of its program: Dabo Swinney will be the fifth former Crimson Tide player (after Frank Howard, Hootie Ingram, Charley Pell, and Danny Ford) and the fifth former Alabama assistant coach (after Jess Neely, Charley Pell, Danny Ford, and Tommy Bowden) to have been named the head coach at Clemson since 1931.