As you know, tonight Clemson is trying to become the first college football team ever to go 15-0 in a single season. That sentence is, FALSE. Four teams have done it — most recently the University of Pennsylvania, in 1897.
Yes, that’s 1897 — when live pigs were used as the ball and players were allowed to hit opponents with clubs (also false). What’s true is that a college football team hasn’t been 15-0-0 in 118 years. The Tigers will try to equal that mark when they take on Nick Saban and his Amazing Alabama Crimson Tide in the College Football Playoff Championship (8:30 p.