The Clemson Insider went back and ranked Clemson’s 25 best teams of all-time.
What classifies a certain team as one of the best? Of course winning a championship—national or conference—will be the first qualification. The other qualifications are overall record, national ranking and where they fell in the conference standings.
We continue our rankings with the No. 10 team on our list:
The 1939 Tigers (9-1, 4-0 in SoCon, ranked No. 12)
As they sat in a parked car outside old Florence Memorial Stadium in Florence, South Carolina following a 6-0 loss to the Citadel on October 16, 1931, then Clemson head coach Jess Neely, assistant coach Joe Davis, Captain Frank Jervey and Captain Pete Heffner talked quietly about the future of its football program.