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The Clemson–Georgia football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Clemson Tigers and Georgia Bulldogs. It was for many years a spirited "border" rivalry between the two schools that are separated by a mere 70 miles. They met annually from 1897 to 1916, and again from 1962 to 1987 (aside from 1966 and 1972).
Along with snapping a 14-game losing streak to the Tigers of the Plains, Clemson also snapped Auburn's 17-game winning streak coming off of the 2009–2011 seasons after a home-and-home series in the 2010–11 seasons. The Georgia Dome then hosted the Auburn–Clemson rivalry the following year in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.
The history of Clemson Tigers football began in 1896, when Clemson University first fielded a football team. Since 1896, the program has an all-time record of 790–466–44, with a bowl record of 28–22. The program has achieved 3 claimed national titles in 1981, 2016, and 2018.
Dating back to 1972, the year freshman eligibility began, Clemson’s only other signing class with one in-state recruit came in 2021. That year, three-star Dutch Fork High School athlete Will ...
Brown, who plays less than an hour away from UGA’s Athens campus and was one of the program’s top 2024 targets, said it was “hard” to call Smart and co-defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann ...
Clemson has a lesser rivalry with the University of Georgia, born because of the two institutions' close proximity (roughly 75 miles apart). Clemson and Georgia first met in 1897, only the second year the Tigers fielded a football team. The rivalry was at its height in the 1980s. Georgia leads the football series 43–18–4. Facilities
In 1904, Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head coach, John Heisman (namesake of the Heisman Trophy), with the prospect of $450 pay raise ($15,260 adjusted for inflation), which was a 25% salary increase. In 1977, Georgia Tech, a year before it joined the ACC, decided to end its series with Clemson.
The Cummings (N.C.) High School star is one of only four players across the Carolinas who rank as 247Sports Composite top 100 recruits. “They said they needed a player like me,” the 16-year ...