Growing up in Cartersville, Ga., Trevor Lawrence did not know much about the Clemson-South Carolina rivalry. He knew the two played every year, but he did not know how intense it was until he watched last year’s game in Columbia.
The second-ranked Tigers, who will host the Gamecocks on Saturday at Death Valley, beat South Carolina rather easily that night. However, it wasn’t the intensity on the field as much as it was in the stands and on the sideline that stuck out to him the most.
South Carolina’s student section was throwing objects at Clemson players on the field and were making rude hand gestures from the stands.