The Clemson Tigers and Boston College Eagles have a long gridiron history that dates all the way back to the 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic, when Banks McFadden and the twelfth-ranked Tigers upset Charley O’Rourke and the tenth-ranked Eagles 6-3 to put the finishing touches on a stellar 9-1-0 1939 campaign.
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http://gridirongarb.blogspot.com/2014/12/boston-college-eagles-1939.html The two teams played sporadically from that 1940 meeting until 1960 (11 games), but did not play again until 1982-1983 (with quarterback Doug Flutie leading BC to a 17-17 tie at Clemson in 1982, then orchestrating a 31-16 victory in Chestnut Hill the following year).