Clemson Tigers College Football Pregame Quote, 12/26/2018

Is it good that the guys are still allowed to come to the bowl game and be able to practice and all that? Yeah. I’m glad they had a chance to come and be part of the team and be part of what we’re doing day-to-day. It’s so fun to have them around and have their support.

For you, this is now the culmination of four hard years. What’s it like walking out on that field at AT&T Stadium the other day knowing you’re getting ready to face Notre Dame again? I mean, it was kind of fun playing there. Great stadium. It’s going to be fun. They are the first team I ever played my freshman year, so it’s fun to be able to play them again towards the end of my career.

As an offensive lineman, do you pay attention to stadiums, especially one that’s that big? What do you think when you walk inside that place? I mean, I just think it’s crazy.

I mean, as far as stadiums go, we don’t really think much about it. I think just, like, other than that, like, the stadium as a whole, more I think just how crazy it is to play in such a great stadium is what you think about.

When you think of that first run that you made in 2015, going into that season, what were y’all thinking about the playoff and the idea of the Playoff at the time? We’d never been to the Playoff. And it was just ‚Äì I was just seeing ‚Äì we got going through the season. We just ‚Äì seeing its success, we kept our head down. We don’t want to look up and see ‚Äì and just be there already because we knew we had the talent to make it that far. It was just convincing, staying in level-headed and just push through the season.

Do you have a story that illustrates why Trevor’s been so successful as a true freshman? I think it’s ‚Äì I mean, first off, he works hard. He works harder than anyone else on the team.

He’s always studying film, always studying something. And it’s ‚Äì it’s fun to see him mature. When he got that starting job, he kind of knew there was a lot of ‚Äì he wanted to ‚Äì just took it upon himself to go work even harder. And doing it has just been fun to watch.