This season is the 40-year anniversary of Clemson’s 1983 team that finished with a 9-1-1 record and No. 11 ranking in the AP poll. There were extenuating circumstances, but this is the most underrated Clemson team, at least in my career in Tigertown.
CLEMSON, S.C. Former Clemson fullback Tracy Johnson, a two-time honorable mention All-American who was a mainstay on three ACC Championship teams in the 1980s, passed away on Friday, April 7 following a battle with cancer. He was 56 years old.
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Note: The following appears in the South Carolina football gameday program. Editor’s Note - For each program in 2022, Tim Bourret chronicles a great individual performance in Clemson history. Today is the seventh installment. As hard as it is to believe, it has been over 42 years since No. 14 South Carolina came into Clemson favored against a Tiger team that was finishing a .500 season to that point. On Nov. 22, 1980, the Gamecocks entered Death Valley with a Gator Bowl bid already secured. In addition to a great season, the Gamecocks featured George Rogers, who would go on to win the Heisman Trophy a few weeks later. Clemson, on the other hand, had struggled to a 5-5 record under second-year Head Coach Danny Ford and was coming off a 34-7 loss at Maryland the week before, the worst loss of Ford’s Tiger coaching career. The Gamecocks may have had everything in the world going for them coming into Clemson on that cold, damp, late November afternoon, but what they did not have was Ti
Note: The following appears in the Syracuse football gameday program. Editor’s Note - For each program in 2022, Tim Bourret chronicles a great individual performance in Clemson history. Today is the fourth installment. The weather for the first half of the Duke vs. Clemson game at Memorial Stadium on Nov. 11, 1995 was so bad that the Hall of Fame induction ceremony scheduled for halftime was canceled. All-time basketball great Larry Nance received his plaque underneath the south stands. For most running backs, such a sloppy turf would not call for a 100-yard rushing total, nevermind a record-setting 263-yard performance. But for Tiger sophomore running back Raymond Priester, the conditions were perfect. “That was a great day for me,” said Priester. “I loved playing in the mud and the rain. It suited my style. I was never a burner.I was a power runner, and a bad field suited me just fine.” This was a different time in college football. Teams tried to run the ball much more tha