It's the off-season so naturally I was bored...........

Jul 1, 2005, 4:17 PM

I was on a #### message board and kept hearing how pathetic our schedule has been over the years because we play in the ACC. I was constantly told by the coot fans there that if they were to play an ACC schedule they would have had the same success as we have. One even said that most Clemson fans agree that USuCk would have done just as good as Clemson. I did way too much research and posted this on the Coot board.......

Much has been made of Clemson’s historically weak schedule and that the ACC is a terrible conference with no good teams and if the mighty ##### were in the ACC they would do as good or better than Clemson. Well, I know many of you don’t like this sort of thing but let’s look at the facts. I know that word (facts) is looked down upon here but I just have to share them with you anyway.

USuCk has played many games vs. the pathetic ACC schools throughout history and if you were to swallow wholesale the bulls**t on this message board regarding the ACC you would assume that mighty USuCk has fared at least as well as Clemson vs the weak ACC opponents. After all that is the biggest excuse #### fans have for the success of Clemson. Right? So let’s take a hard look at what USuCk has done vs the ACC.

Alphabetically Clemson is the first to make in on the list (bad one to start with for a #### fan) USuCk’s famous record vs the Tigers of the ACC is 35-63-4. Ouch not a good start but they will probaly have winning records vs the rest of them.

Next up Duke. OK this one should be the best one for the #####, I mean come on it’s Duke right? Nope, ##### went 17-24-3. Well honestly that’s not that bad, it’s much closer than their record vs. Clemson. Also Duke had some pretty good teams way back before television. The last time the ##### played Duke was in 1991 and it was a tie 24-24. Clemson’s record vs Duke? 32-16-1.

Next up is Florida St. USuCk is on par with Clemson in the all-time series with a 3-15 record for both schools but the last time the ##### beat FSU was 1984 and FSU totaled 7 wins that year. Clemson beat them in ‘89 and 2003 when FSU had 10 wins in each season.

Next up is Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech is probably the only ACC team USuCk has matched up against better than Clemson. The ##### have a 9-12 record vs the Jackets and Clemson has an embarrassing 23-44-2 record vs them. Between the years 1908 and 1973 the Jackets absolutely owned the Tigers going 32-3 vs them in that time period. Every single one of those games was played in Atlanta. But the Tigers have a 20-12 record before 1908 and every year since 1973 when Atlanta was only the setting every other year. Clemson is 9-5 vs the Jackets in games played at Death Valley. During the last 20 years the Tigers have gone 11-9 vs the Jackets. USuCk has not played GT since 1991 where they beat the Jackets in Columbia by a score of 23-14. During the last 20 years they have only met four times and they split the series 2-2. The scores were SCU 0 GT 34, SCU 21 GT 10, SCU 6 GT 27, and the 23-10 game mentioned earlier.

Next up is Maryland. Another ACC team, another winning record over the #####. I see a trend. USuCk is 11-17 vs the turtles in football. The last time the turtles and chickens faced off was in the year 1971 and the chickens creamed the twerps 35-6. Does Clemson have a losing record vs the turtles too? Nope Clemson has a 28-23-2 mark over them.

Next, The battle of the Carolinas. North owns south in this case. UNC holds a 34-16-4 record over the #####. Surprised? I’m not. Clemson’s record vs UNC? 33-18-1.

Next up NC State. Have we made it to a team that SCU actually has a winning record against? Not yet!!!!! NC State has 27-24-4 record over the #####. ##### have played them 4 times since 1989 and has lost them all. Another weak ACC team huh? Clemson’s record vs them? 45-27-1

We finally made it to an ACC team that USuCk has a winning record against!!!!!! UVA!!!!!!! 20-13-1 for the #### boys. UVA has split the series over the last 20 years going 2-2. Clemson’s record vs the Pergolas? 35-8-1

We end the list with Wake Forest. USuCk also enjoys a series lead over the Deacons of 33-21 winning 14 out of the last 15. I think Clemson can do better than that……They can at 54-15-1 taking 46 out of the last 54.

USuCk’s record vs the historically weak ACC total? 168-226-18. (.426) Too bad the ##### are not in the ACC. They would own the ACC!!!!

Maybe head to head isn’t the best way to judge. LOL. Let’s look at bowl records

The mighty USuCk? 3-8

Clemson 14-13

Duke 3-5 (as many wins as the #####)

I’m not even going to bother posting FSU’s bowl record

Georgia Tech 22-11

Maryland 8-10-2

Tarholes 12-13

NC State 11-10-1

UVA 6-9

Wake Forest 4-2 (MORE wins than USuCk and one of them was over USuCk)

Conclusion? If the South Carolina Gamecocks were in the “weak” ACC they would be historically the worst #### team in it.

Ballgame.

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