Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry

Former Clemson coach Charley Pell once said that the outcome of the Carolina-Clemson rivalry "e;decides who walks down the street as state champion and who hides in a closet for a year."e; That's the way it goes in the Palmetto State when these two football teams get together. Playing for the first time in 1896 on a soggy day at the state fair in Columbia, the Gamecocks and the Tigers began a tradition that has lasted over a century. Join award-winning sportswriters Travis Haney and Larry Williams as they recount the greatest moments of the longest uninterrupted series in the South, with firsthand accounts from coaches, players and spectators.