CLEMSON – It did not take long for the fourth-ranked Clemson Tigers to reap the benefits of a 81,500-person, orange-colored wall of sound at Memorial Stadium Saturday night.
A week ahead of Clemson’s season-opener against the “other” Tigers, head coach Dabo Swinney had two requests for Clemson fans: be loud and wear orange. In the first half against LSU, Clemson fans quickly lived up to the charge and stayed that way the whole game in a 17-10 loss to No. 9 LSU.
As the Tigers lined up to kickoff, the noise in the stadium was deafening. Chants of “C-L-E-M-S-O-N!