Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney spent all day Monday at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut as part of ESPN’s ACC Coaches Carwash.

Swinney stopped by the Mike & Mike Radio Show this morning to start things off and then later appeared on SportsCenter where he had a one-on-one conversation with Hannah Storm. Following his SportsCenter interview he was off to ESPN’s other shows such as His & Hers on ESPN2 and Russillo & Kanell on ESPN Radio.

Swinney finished his day making a full show appearance on College Football Live.

Here is what we heard from Swinney at ESPN’s Carwash: Part 1

Swinney started trending on Twitter Monday morning when he went on the Mike & Mike radio show and spoke about how the PC police have an agenda and are attacking football and trying to change the way the game is being played.

“I think the game has never been better. I think there is an agenda,” the Clemson coach said. “I think when North Korea gets a nuclear bomb it is going to be football’s fault. I think we are in a culture where everything is football’s (fault), and it is because football has the stage, but it’s football, and I don’t care what people’s agenda is.

“Yes, we must improve, we must always get better, we must always learn. We have to always have to create ways to protect our players. But at the end of the day, and I have all kinds of education. I have business degree. I have an MBA, but the greatest education I got is in between the lines.

“The other thing I tell people is that football is a great example to this country,” Swinney continued. “Football unifies. Football brings people together. I go to Death Valley and there are 85,000 people in those stands and they are packed. You know what, a lot of those people Monday-Friday probably will not talk to each other because they are different religions, they are different colors, they live in different neighborhoods, they drive different cars and they have different bank accounts. But on Saturdays when the Tigers score, they are hugging on people’s necks, they are high fiving.

“I have brothers for life that I met in between the lines. When you put that helmet on, it does not matter what color you are or what religion you are. It is a singleness with purpose. Nothing brings people together like the game of football.

“You want to fix congress, let’s go create some football teams. Let’s have some inside drills, some one-on-ones. You will bring people together real quick.”

Swinney’s political view got started when Mike Greenberg asked the Tigers’ coach his opinion on the possibility of the kickoff being removed from the college game.

Swinney responded by saying there are other things they can do rather than take out the kickoff to make it safer. He said he is all for safety, but there are other ways to figure it out without changing the game.

After leaving the Mike & Mike Show, Swinney went over to the SportsCenter set where Hannah Storm interviewed him, where they spoke about all kinds of topics.

It started off with a friendly complement from Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who said last week Clemson should be the preseason No. 1 and that Deshaun Watson was the best college quarterback Alabama has faced since Cam Newton in 2010.

“I appreciate Coach Saban talking about us as No. 1, but that is like Bill Gates talking about someone else’s wealth,” he said while smiling.

Storm brought up Swinney’s and Saban’s wager on the national championship game, and Swinney pointed out he paid his debt. Saban and Swinney, own vacation homes in the same neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida, attended an event together on St. Patrick’s Day.

“I bought him a certificate at the Temptations, the restaurant, down there in Boca (Raton). I bought him a nice certificate. We walk in and it was the first time I had seen him (since the national championship game), and I’m like let’s just get it over with. Then he gets mad,” Swinney joked. “’I thought we were going to eat together.’ I was like, ‘I don’t know if we were going to work it out and I did not want to owe you and here you go.’

“I had written on there, ‘See you in Tampa next year.’ And then of course he starts going, ‘We are not going to Tampa. We are no good.’ You know the old typical … He was trying to make me feel sorry for him. I said, ‘Whatever!’ Anyway, we had fun. I paid my debt and I think he had a great dinner at my expense. I am a man of my word and hopefully someday we will even it up somewhere down the line.”