Clemson–Georgia Tech football rivalry

Clemson–Georgia Tech football rivalry
First meeting November 24, 1898
Clemson 23, Georgia Tech 0
Latest meeting September 22, 2016
Clemson 26, Georgia Tech 7
Next meeting 2017 in Clemson
Statistics
Meetings total 81
All-time series Georgia Tech leads, 50–29–2
Largest victory Clemson, 73–0 (1903)
Longest win streak Georgia Tech, 15 (1908–1934)
Current win streak Clemson, 2 (2015–present)

The Clemson–Georgia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Clemson Tigers football team of Clemson University and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team of Georgia Tech. Both schools are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Since conference expansion in 2005, Clemson represents the Atlantic Division while Georgia Tech plays in the Coastal Division, and are currently designated as cross-divisional rivals.

The ACC series between the schools, beginning in 1983 as a standard home-home series, has been very close and competitive, with Clemson currently leading the series 18-16. Since 1899, all games prior to 1974 were played in Atlanta, Georgia.

Both schools also have intense in-state rivalries against larger schools which both happen to be in the SEC: Georgia Tech's Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate rivalry with the Georgia Bulldogs, and Clemson's Palmetto Bowl game against the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Series history

Halftime at the 2007 Clemson–Georgia Tech game at Bobby Dodd Stadium

Through 2016, the teams have played 81 times, with Tech leading the series 50–29–2, with 60 games played in Atlanta, and only 19 games played in Clemson's Memorial Stadium.[1] The teams first met in 1898, when Clemson's third-year program defeated Georgia Tech 23–0 to finish with a 3–1 record. The following year, the Tigers beat Tech again, 41–5.[2] In 1904, Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head coach, John Heisman (namesake of the Heisman Trophy), with the prospect of $450 pay raise ($11,995 adjusted for inflation), which was a 25% salary increase.[3]

In 1977, Georgia Tech, a year before it joined the ACC, decided to end its series with Clemson. George Bennett, a Clemson athletics booster, was determined to preserve the game, as the trip to Atlanta provided a unique experience for the Tigers players and fanbase who had not been to a bowl game since 1959. In what was supposed to be the final game in Atlanta, upon Bennett's suggestion, thousands of Clemson supporters paid their expenses with two-dollar bills stamped with the shape of a tiger paw. This demonstrated the large amount of money that the Clemson fanbase regularly pumped into the local economy because of the game.[4]

The series resumed in 1983 when Georgia Tech began playing football in the ACC. This has become one of the most competitive rivalries in the ACC with a record of 17-16, with Clemson currently leading the series by one game (excluding the vacated 2009 ACC Championship Game won by Tech). These games have often been decided at the last minute and by small margins.[5] Nine of the games between 1996 and 2006 were decided by five points or less.[6]

When the Atlantic Coast Conference- ACC- reorganized in 2005 to form divisions for the sport of football, Clemson and Georgia Tech were designated as cross-division rivals.[7] This means that their football teams meet every season, unlike games between each team's other non-divisional conference opponents, which are played less often on a rotational basis.

In the 2009 season, both teams won their respective division in the ACC. For the first time in the series' history, the two teams met for a second time in a season on December 5, 2009 in the ACC Championship Game. The game marked the first ever December meeting between the two teams, as well as the first post-season meeting. It was also the first time the series has been played outside of Atlanta or Clemson since 1899. Georgia Tech won 39–34; however, the NCAA later vacated the last 3 games of Georgia Tech's 2009 season along with the ACC Championship. The NCAA determined that starting WR Demaryius Thomas should have been ruled ineligible ahead of the previous game for accepting $312 worth of clothing from a potential agent. While the offense was minor, and the individual never proven to be an agent and the clothing returned, the NCAA ruled that Georgia Tech's athletic department had prepared the players prior to submitting statements, and was generally uncooperative with the NCAA investigation. Therefore, all games following the alleged offense have been vacated, including the 2009 ACC championship game with Clemson.[8]

In the 2011 season, both teams started 6–0. Clemson had beaten previous national champion Auburn earlier in the season, and the match-up was highly anticipated until Georgia Tech stumbled losing two straight games, at Virginia and at Miami (FL). Clemson's Andre Ellington was injured, and after 4 Clemson turnovers, Georgia Tech went on to upset the #5 Tigers 31-17. Both teams went on to lose three games toward the end of the season, with the exception of Clemson's dominating performance over Coastal Division champion #5 Virginia Tech to clinch the 2011 ACC Championship.

Game results

Clemson victories are shaded ██ orange. Georgia Tech victories are shaded ██ gold. Ties are white. Vacated is shown in grey.

Date Winner Score Location
November 24, 1898 Clemson 23–0 Augusta, GA
November 30, 1899 Clemson 41–5 Greenville, SC
October 18, 1902 Clemson 44–5 Atlanta, GA
October 17, 1903 Clemson 73–0 Atlanta, GA
November 5, 1904 Tie 11–11 Atlanta, GA
November 30, 1905 Georgia Tech 17–10 Atlanta, GA
November 29, 1906 Clemson 10–0 Atlanta, GA
November 28, 1907 Clemson 6–5 Atlanta, GA
November 26, 1908 Georgia Tech 30–6 Atlanta, GA
November 25, 1909 Georgia Tech 29–3 Atlanta, GA
November 24, 1910 Georgia Tech 34–0 Atlanta, GA
November 30, 1911 Georgia Tech 32–0 Atlanta, GA
November 28, 1912 Georgia Tech 20–0 Atlanta, GA
November 27, 1913 Georgia Tech 34–0 Atlanta, GA
November 26, 1914 Georgia Tech 26–6 Atlanta, GA
October 5, 1918 Georgia Tech 28–0 Atlanta, GA
October 9, 1919 Georgia Tech 28–0 Atlanta, GA
November 6, 1920 Georgia Tech 7–0 Atlanta, GA
November 5, 1921 Georgia Tech 48–7 Atlanta, GA
November 4, 1922 Georgia Tech 21–7 Atlanta, GA
October 1, 1932 Georgia Tech 32–14 Atlanta, GA
September 30, 1933 Georgia Tech 39–2 Atlanta, GA
September 29, 1934 Georgia Tech 12–7 Atlanta, GA
October 31, 1936 Clemson 14–13 Atlanta, GA
November 6, 1937 Georgia Tech 7–0 Atlanta, GA
November 20, 1943 Georgia Tech 41–6 Atlanta, GA
September 30, 1944 Georgia Tech 51–0 Atlanta, GA
November 24, 1945 Clemson 21–7 Atlanta, GA
November 7, 1953 Georgia Tech 20–7 Atlanta, GA
November 8, 1958 Georgia Tech 13–0 Atlanta, GA
October 3, 1959 Georgia Tech 16–6 Atlanta, GA
September 22, 1962 Georgia Tech 26–9 Atlanta, GA
September 28, 1963 Georgia Tech 27–0 Atlanta, GA
October 3, 1964 Georgia Tech 14–7 Atlanta, GA
October 2, 1965 Georgia Tech 38–6 Atlanta, GA
October 1, 1966 Georgia Tech 13–12 Atlanta, GA
October 7, 1967 Georgia Tech 10–0 Atlanta, GA
October 5, 1968 Georgia Tech 24–21 Atlanta, GA
October 4, 1969 Clemson 21–10 Atlanta, GA
October 3, 1970 Georgia Tech 28–7 Atlanta, GA
October 2, 1971 Georgia Tech 24–14 Atlanta, GA

Date Winner Score Location
October 7, 1972 Georgia Tech 31–9 Atlanta, GA
September 29, 1973 Georgia Tech 29–21 Atlanta, GA
September 28, 1974 Clemson 21–17 Clemson, SC
September 27, 1975 Georgia Tech 33–28 Atlanta, GA
September 25, 1976 Tie 24–24 Atlanta, GA
September 24, 1977 Clemson 31–14 Atlanta, GA
September 24, 1983 Clemson 41–14 Clemson, SC
September 29, 1984 Georgia Tech 28–21 Atlanta, GA
September 28, 1985 Georgia Tech 14–3 Clemson, SC
September 27, 1986 Clemson 27–3 Atlanta, GA
September 26, 1987 Clemson 33–12 Clemson, SC
September 24, 1988 Clemson 30–13 Atlanta, GA
October 14, 1989 Georgia Tech 30–14 Clemson, SC
October 13, 1990 Georgia Tech 21–19 Atlanta, GA
September 28, 1991 Clemson 9–7 Clemson, SC
September 26, 1992 Georgia Tech 20–16 Atlanta, GA
September 25, 1993 Clemson 16–13 Clemson, SC
November 12, 1994 Clemson 20–10 Clemson, SC
October 28, 1995 Clemson 24–3 Atlanta, GA
October 19, 1996 Clemson 28–25 Clemson, SC
September 27, 1997 Georgia Tech 23–20 Atlanta, GA
November 12, 1998 Georgia Tech 24–21 Clemson, SC
November 13, 1999 Georgia Tech 45–42 Atlanta, GA
October 28, 2000 Georgia Tech 31–28 Clemson, SC
September 29, 2001 Clemson 47–44 Atlanta, GA
September 14, 2002 Clemson 24–19 Clemson, SC
September 20, 2003 Clemson 39–3 Atlanta, GA
September 11, 2004 Georgia Tech 28–24 Clemson, SC
October 29, 2005 Georgia Tech 10–9 Atlanta, GA
October 21, 2006 Clemson 31–7 Clemson, SC
September 29, 2007 Georgia Tech 13–3 Atlanta, GA
October 18, 2008 Georgia Tech 21–17 Clemson, SC
September 10, 2009 Georgia Tech 30–27 Atlanta, GA
December 5, 2009 Georgia Tech 39–34 Tampa, FL
October 23, 2010 Clemson 27–13 Clemson, SC
October 29, 2011 Georgia Tech 31–17 Atlanta, GA
October 6, 2012 Clemson 47–31 Clemson, SC
November 14, 2013 Clemson 55–31 Clemson, SC
November 15, 2014 Georgia Tech 28–6 Atlanta, GA
October 10, 2015 Clemson 43–24 Clemson, SC
September 22, 2016 Clemson 26–7 Atlanta, GA

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