Click to watch comments from Dabo Swinney after Clemson's 34-17 win over South Carolina Saturday. It's Swinney's first win against his arch-rival since he was an interim coach in 2008. The Tigers finish the 2014 regular season with a 9-3 record.
Click to watch comments from Steve Spurrier after the Gamecocks' 35-17 loss at Clemson Saturday. Spurrier finished his 10th season as Carolina head coach with a 6-6 record, tied for his worst regular season record at USC.
Clemson offensive coordinator has been linked to the SMU head coach job in the last few days. Click to watch his first public comments on that situation when he met the media after Saturday's 34-17 Clemson win over South Carolina.
A Clemson men’s basketball game was decided by three points again Friday. For the second straight time, the Tigers escaped with a victory. Clemson held off High Point in a 62-59 triumph in Littlejohn Coliseum to move to 4-2 on the young season. The Panthers fell to 4-2 overall.
Clemson defensive end Vic Beasley has been named one of three finalists for the Chuck Bednarik Award. The honor goes each year to the top defensive player in college football and is presented by the Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia.
Beasley is joined by Joey Bosa, a defensive end from Ohio State and Scooby Wright, a linebacker from Arizona. This is the second award that Beasley has been named a finalist. Last week he was named one of four finalists for the Lombardi Award, which goes to the top offensive or defensive lineman in college football.
USC defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward has to prepare his unit for two different types of quarterbacks that Clemson may use on Saturday. “You have to be concerned with (Deshaun) Watson because he can run the football,” Ward said after Tuesday's practice. “Not that they won’t run it with (Cole) Stoudt. I think he’ll run the ball some too, but they’ll run it a lot more with Watson playing quarterback.”
South Carolina's defense and its line of NFL standouts the past five years are big reasons for the unprecedented run of success against rival Clemson.
And while defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, linebacker D.J. Swearinger and cornerback Stephon Gilmore won't suit up this time, the Gamecocks' defense is finding that familiar form at exactly the right time to try for a sixth straight win over the 23rd-ranked Tigers (8-3) on Saturday.
Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris has had a wild run of success the past four seasons — except against rival South Carolina.
The 23rd-ranked Tigers (8-3) have set scoring in two of the previous three seasons since Morris arrived in January 2011 and averaged almost 38 points a game, yet they struggle against the Gamecocks (6-5).
The seventh-seeded Clemson men’s soccer team edged No. 25 Coastal Carolina 2-1 Monday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Historic Riggs Field. The Tigers advance to the Round of 16 for the first time since 2006 and for the 23rd time in program history. Tonight’s win was the first NCAA Tournament win for Clemson since 2006. Clemson faces North Carolina at Historic Riggs Field on Sunday, Nov. 30. Clemson improved to 12-6-3 on the season with the win.
Trailing 56-52 at the under-four media timeout, Clemson rallied for a 64-61 triumph over LSU to win the fourth place game at the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The ACC’s Tigers improved to 3-2 overall and went 2-1 in the event, while LSU fell to 3-2, leaving the tournament with a 1-2 mark.
Tonight’s men’s soccer match between No. 7 Clemson and No. 25 Coastal Carolina in the second round of the NCAA Tournament has been postponed due to inclement weather and unplayable field conditions. The match has been rescheduled for Monday night, Nov. 24, at 6 p.m. at Historic Riggs Field.
Late Saturday night, the 2014 version of the Carolina-Clemson rivalry finally got a game time.
The Gamecocks and Tigers will kick off just after noon this Saturday in Death Valley.
ESPN will air the game.
Freshman Tyshon Dye rushed for 124 yards and two touchdowns as Clemson bounced back from its loss to Georgia Tech last week with a 28-0 win over Georgia State on Saturday.
Clemson freshman Donte Grantham called time out when the Tigers didn't have any and Jarvis Davis made two late free throws to capitalize and give Gardner-Webb a 72-70 victory in the first round of the Paradise Jam on Friday.
The seventh ranked and seventh seeded Clemson men’s soccer team will host Coastal Carolina this Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The match kicks off at 7 p.m. at Historic Riggs Field and will be broadcast live on ESPN3.