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I am anxious to go up against the top back in the nation,” said Clemson captain Jeff Davis the week of the 1981 game against defending national champion Georgia, a team that had not lost since Herschel Walker came to Athens.
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.
Note: The following appears in the Wake Forest football gameday program.Editor’s Note - This is the 40th anniversary of Clemson’s first national championship season in 1981. For each program in 2021, Tim Bourret takes us back to that season with features on players or games from the landmark year.Our series on the 1981 national championship season concludes today with a rundown on the game that clinched the national title for the Tigers, the 22-15 win over Nebraska in the Jan. 1, 1982 Orange Bowl.With today’s home finale against Wake Forest, it is fitting that one of the central figures of this landmark Tiger victory was wide receiver Perry Tuttle, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., the home of the Demon Deacons.Tuttle always played well against Wake Forest. His 22 career receptions for 379 yards and five touchdowns were his best stats against any opponent. He became the first Tiger with a receiving touchdown against the same opponent four years in a row.The central theme of our pr