Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney didn’t hold back while discussing the pass interference call that was made in the final minute of the Tigers’ 46-45 loss to Duke on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

Facing a fourth-and-10 from the Clemson 18-yard line with 49 seconds left, Duke quarterback Derian Mensah’s pass to Que’Sean Brown fell incomplete. All of a sudden, a flag came flying in from the back of the field. The call was defensive pass interference on Clemson cornerback Avieon Terrell.

Instead of a Clemson victory, Duke scored one play later, then added a two-point conversion for the one-point win.

During his postgame press conference, Swinney blasted that defensive pass interference call, which prolonged the game and gave Duke a first down inside the 5-yard line.

“I don’t even really know what to say about the last call,” Swinney said. “Y’all saw it. It shouldn’t come down to that. We had plenty of opportunities to win the game.

“But that’s one of the worst calls I’ve ever seen in a game, ever, in my entire coaching career. Ever. In a situation like that… I don’t really know what else to say.”

Swinney added of the PI call, “that’s not why we lost, because we had plenty of opportunities to win.”

“I don’t want to make that a deal, because we should’ve won the game.” he said. “We had plenty of opportunities to win the game. But you fight your butt off and you scratch and you claw and you get in a situation like that, and you just have a call like that. Man. That’s just more salt in the wound.”

A member of the media later asked Swinney what he saw on the PI call.

“I saw OPI [offensive pass interference]. What’d you see?” Swinney replied. “I’m asking you. Did you watch it? Did anybody else watch it? Did you watch it? Did you think it was defensive pass interference? … Anybody else got an opinion?”

Swinney says when the flag was ultimately thrown, he thought that offensive pass interference was going to be the call.

“That’s what I thought he was calling,” he said. “That’s what I thought the call was. I was shocked there wasn’t a flag, and then when I saw the flag, I was like, ‘Oh, good. They called OPI.’ So, it didn’t go our way. Must’ve seen something I didn’t see. Maybe y’all saw it on TV different than me.”