During his 30-year career as Clemson’s head coach, Frank Howard won just two times in Atlanta. They came in 1945 and then in 1969, his last year running the Tigers’ football program.
On Saturday, Dabo Swinney will have the opportunity to do something Howard, Danny Ford or Tommy Bowden could not, earn a third win over the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta. In fact, not even John Heisman won more than two games in Atlanta as the Clemson head coach and no Clemson coach has ever defeated the Jackets more than two twice in Atlanta.
The Yellow Jackets of course stole Heisman from Clemson after the Tigers’ 73-0 win in Atlanta in 1903.