You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.

You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.

It takes a lot to be Dabo Swinney, and not everyone can live this lifestyle. But, boy is it fun.

You can only get so far from an evaluation standpoint in practice, and you know, at some point, you've got to go play and kind of take that next step in the evaluation of just where you are and then grow and make adjustments as you go throughout the year.

Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.