When Steve Spurrier was hired by South Carolina in 2005, he immediately started telling Gamecocks fans and players that they needed to worry less, not more, about beating Clemson.
“When I got there, a couple of the older people would say, ‘If you beat Clemson, you can lose the rest of them.’ I’d say, ‘I’d rather win them all and lose to Clemson because that’d put us 11-1 instead of 1-11,’ ” Spurrier told The State. “I think the attitude of the Gamecocks changed a little bit to understand we played 12 games, not just one a year.