One Clemson tradition has been ranked among the nation’s best.
247Sports has ranked the 10 Best Entrances in College Football, with the Tigers’ longstanding tradition of touching Howard’s Rock as the team runs down the iconic hill coming in at No. 5.
“The Clemson football team taking a lap around the outside of the stadium in buses builds anticipation for one of the sport’s most iconic entrances. The Tigers are far from the only squad that touch an item, statue or sign on their way onto the field, but when they rub Howard’s Rock — a quartzite chunk from Death Valley, Calif.