re: Clemson W/L

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We have dominated USC throughout history. Facts...

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Not in the history of Dabo vs OBC... and those are the two coaches.

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We have dominated USC throughout history. Facts...

What has Old Piss ever done besides being a little child riding the short Bus?


You have been served. You're welcome.

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LOL, USC and Clemson have played 111 games throughout it's history. Clemson has had a dominant run during about half that time frame:

Decade: CU - USC

1896-99: 3-1-0
1900-09: 2-1-0
1910-19: 8-1-1
1920-29: 5-5-0
1930-39: 7-3-0
1940-49: 4-5-1
1950-59: 4-5-1
1960-69: 5-5-0
1970-79: 6-4-0
1980-89: 7-2-1
1990-99: 7-3-0
2000-09: 7-3-0
2010-13: 0-4-0

Clemson had some early success back in the ancient days of the sport, and then definitely their FB program left USC's program behind in the 80s right up into Spurrier's tenure as HC. But that still only constitutes half of the overall series' history.

IMO what hurt USC was it's decision to leave the ACC and become an independent in CFB. Leaving the ACC wasn't the bad part - it was not having another quality conference to move into immediately after. It caused USC's revenues to plummet, keeping us from keeping up with the Jones' in nearby conferences, which hurt our ability to hired top coaches, and recruit top prospects.

One could also look at the timeline when USC was actually in a major conference, even dating back to the earliest days. USC and Clemson were conference mates in both the Southern Conference from 1922 through 1952, and then as founding members of the Atlantic Coast Conference from 1953 through 1971, when USC seceded. That time framed spanned exactly 50 years, or nearly half the entire USC-Clemson series...

Clemson went 26-22-2 versus USC during those years - not a dominant success rate at all. It's almost dead even.

Other than those 5 decades of the series above, Clemson is 29-30-2 versus USC the rest of the time, consisting of 55% of all the games played in the series. So really the slight majority of the time USC and Clemson have played each other, Clemson has a LOSING record versus USC.....