Palmetto Bowl: RIVALRY WEEK Can the Tigers Make It Five in a Row?
NO. 2/2 CLEMSON (11-0, 8-0 ACC) vs. NR/RV SOUTH CAROLINA (6-4, 4-4 SEC)
SATURDAY, NOV. 24 • 7 P.M. ET • MEMORIAL STADIUM (81,500) • CLEMSON, S.C
– OVERALL: Clemson leads series, 69-42-4 – HOME: Clemson leads series, 18-10-1
- ROAD: Clemson leads series, 51-32-3
- NEUTRAL: N/A
– LAST MEETING: Nov. 25, 2017 (34-10, W) – STREAK: Clemson, Won 4
Clemson, SC
As the Clemson football team enters its last regular season game of the year on Saturday inside of Memorial Stadium. The Orange-clad Tigers look to stay undefeated on the season and head into the ACC Championship game riding the momentum of an 11-0 start. This time its the “In-State Rivals” the Gamecocks from South Carolina that would like nothing better than to derail the Tigers plans of another trip to the College Football Playoffs.
The Gamecocks come in in the midst of a very disappointing season. The crew out of Columbia started the 2018 season with high expectations coming off a 9-4 season the year prior. This was the year it was to come together for Will Muschamp and his team. Veteran offensive line and a third-year starter at quarterback along with a hyped wide receiver squad has led to a 6-4 season so far. With an offense that just can’t seem to find a consistent rhythm in either area of the game, and a defense that has not played to its potential at times very undisciplined. Muschamp and his coaching staff have been scratching their heads all year long as to what has held this team from reaching its lofty goals of at least a 10 win season and competing for the SEC East.
The series which now stands at 69-42-4 with Clemson winning the last four straight. South Carolina has had a very hard time keeping pace with the Clemson program in recent years having been outscored in the past 3 contest 131-49. With each of these games never being in question in that Clemson was the better team on the field in previous years. Now the Gamecocks look to play “spoiler” against their in-state rival and better position themselves in the bowl pecking order.
The Tigers look to end the season undefeated and cap it off with a win in Charlotte on December 1st versus Pittsburgh in the ACC Championship. And take the season into the College Football Playoffs. Nothing would make the folks from Columbia and Richland County happier than to be able to play spoiler to the Tigers perfect regular season. And prevent the dreaded “Five Bomb” from being reciprocated full circle.
Don’t know if this is the year that the Gamecocks can turn the tide again instate as Clemson looks headed to its 70th victory in the series. And again supplanting themselves as “the Palmetto Champs”.
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