There’s this old cliché about rivalry games: throw the record books out the window.
Maybe that’s true in some instances. Even casual fans of college football can remember some wacky things happening across the country on rivalry weekends. Series like Alabama-Auburn and Florida-Florida State have often been marked by a flurry of season-changing, heart-wrenching, fan-jarring upsets.
South Carolina-Clemson? Not so much. The better team, at least on paper, has won at a little more than a 90-percent clip.
Not that there haven’t been a few notable upsets. The 1980 “Orange Pants Game” probably comes to mind for many longtime Clemson fans.