Gary Patterson is notoriously picky about who he plays in nonconference games, so when Clemson called from the ACC in need of one game to fill its 2009 schedule this was not a guarantee.
Clemson was offering $1 million for TCU to come to South Carolina and, much to TCU’s surprise, the head football coach took a game that would not even be televised.
He knew he had the team to beat Clemson, against a little known coach with the funny sounding name.
“Sure I remember that game. They were really good, and they had (quarterback) Andy Dalton,” Clemson co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott said.