From the second the bus pulled up at the Holiday Inn in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame was trying to get into Clemson’s head.
“Everything they did from the time we landed in South Bend, Ind., was coordinated by Notre Dame,” former Clemson quarterback Billy Lott remembers about the Tigers’ last trip to South Bend in November of 1979.
Lott remembers how the smell of chlorine from the hotel’s inside pool permeated throughout the building. Then, when the Tigers got to the stadium on game day, the bus driver stopped right where the players could see Touchdown Jesus when they got off the bus.