COLUMBIA – The brake lights were visible from the press box as early as the middle of the third quarter as fans began to leave Williams-Brice Stadium in droves. Inside the stadium itself, Clemson’s football team knew it didn’t need to throw the ball down the field or take chances. All Clemson had to do was continue to play suffocating defense and run the football.
That recipe worked as South Carolina was shut out by the Tigers for the 22nd time in series history. An interesting side note to that stat is the fact that all 22 shutouts have happened in Columbia.