It has been a tough start to the season for Clemson's football team, and Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney. Swinney found out on Tuesday that he has something to celebrate, though. A recent ranking finds that Swinney is the third most handsome college football coach in America.

“As in like good looking? Wow something finally comes my way!” Swinney said jokingly at a presser, per FOX Sports. “I thought you was gonna say most hated guy or whatever.”

A website called RotoGrinders conducted a study using facial technology to conduct measurements of the features of coaches faces. Coaches were then ranked, in terms of most good-looking. The two college coaches who finished ahead of Swinney are Indiana's Curt Cignetti, and Duke's Manny Diaz.

“I'm going to have to process that,” Swinney joked after learning who was ahead of him on the list. “What kind of a reputable website is this we're dealing with?”

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Swinney had a lot of fun joking around about the study.

“Me, Cignetti and Diaz, we have the same agents so maybe it was just based on our agency. So, you might want to check that,” he added. “I still have some debate. I'm about to call Manny and I'm going to text them guys.”

Clemson is 1-1 on the season. The Tigers suffered a bad defeat to start the season, against Lane Kiffin's LSU Tigers. LSU defeated Clemson 51-10. It was the largest margin of defeat in Swinney's career at Clemson.

Clemson hopes to regroup from that horrible loss. The Tigers bounced back with a win over Georgia Southern. Clemson is now 1-1 on the year.

The Tigers next play North Carolina on Saturday to open ACC play.