There are two coaches in tomorrow night’s Orange Bowl. One is a youngish guy perceived by outsiders to be a little goofy who  sometimes says things that make people laugh because those words aren’t the ones that normally come out of a coach’s mouth.

The other one is holding a can of Red Bull in the above picture.

Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and WVU’s Dana Holgorsen send their teams and with them their opposite sideline ideologies out to the field at Sun Life Stadium. Swinney has rubbed off on his players, who are kind of drawn to his antics.

“There aren’t too many schools you can go to and play for guys like that,” Boyd said of Swinney, a chest-bumping, high-fiving character who does showy things and says quirky stuff, like accepting the Atlantic Coast Conference championship trophy and saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce that I’m taking my Clemson talents to South Beach, baby.”

It’s not an act. It’s actually what makes the Tigers go and why they average 75 snaps per game.

“It’d be weird if your coach had more energy than the players,” Boyd said. “He’d going to do some crazy things, but it’s just so fun to play for such a unique guy.”

Holgorsen just isn’t like that. His team plays fast. His players are intense. During a game, he’s pretty calm and generally directs his most animated expressions at officials.

I remember coming back from the USF game and the guy next to me on the plane had watched the game two nights before. He knew about Holgorsen and the casino and had assumed Holgorsen was a “hell-raiser.” He was shocked and impressed by how collected Holgorsen appeared on the ESPN broadcast, even with everything that went wrong in that game and how frantically it had ended.

Holgorsen does have his reputation, undeserved and/or inaccurate as it may be, and he has his several cans of Red Bull every day, but he’s a pretty tame guy during games. And yet convinced his players to play with the energy and effort and enthusiasm they featured to win the final three games of the season without borrowing anything from the Trooper Taylor playbook.

“I’ve always been the same way,” he said. “I’ve never been a rah-rah guy. I think some of that stuff is fake. You do it when you need to do it and you don’t do it if it’s not something you do. That’s my philosophy. You can’t trick them.”

And yet he has his team’s attention.

“They know when they need to have energy,” he said. “I am pretty low-key and I’m pretty relaxed when things are going the way they need to go. When things aren’t going the way they need to go, they know exactly what’s coming.”