CLEMSON — Happy Super Bowl Week.

We are just five days away from Super Bowl Sunday, as Seattle takes on New England in Super Bowl LX. It will mark the first time since 2017 Clemson will not be represented on a Super Bowl winning roster.

The last time Clemson did not have a former Tiger on either Super Bowl roster was in 2016.

Though it will not have anyone representing it in Super Bowl LX, Clemson has left its mark on football’s biggest game many times before and I am sure it will in the future, too.

A few years ago in Super Bowl LVI, Tee Higgins became the first offensive player from Clemson to score a touchdown. In fact, he scored two in Cincinnati’s loss to the Los Angeles Rams.

He finished the evening with 4 catches for 100 yards, including a 75-yard TD reception to start the second half. Higgins’ TD tied for the longest offensive TD in Super Bowl history.

Higgins is not the only former Clemson receiver to have a big game in the Super Bowl. Though he did not score a TD, Sammy Watkins caught five passes for 98 yards in Super Bowl LIV, including a critical 38-yard reception that set up the go-ahead TD late in the fourth quarter in Kansas City’s win over San Francisco.

DeAndre Hopkins also showed up when he got his Super Bowl moment. The former Clemson star became the third player in Clemson history to score a TD in the big game, while also becoming for first Tiger to successfully record a 2-point conversion. He caught a 7-yard TD pass in Kansas City’s loss to the Eagles last year.

Sticking with the wide receiver theme, Dwight Clark hauled in 77 yards in Super Bowl XIX, as the 49ers downed the Dan Marino led Miami Dolphins.

Of course, the first Clemson player to score a TD in the Super Bowl came in 1986, when William “The Refrigerator” Perry scored on a 1-yard run in Super Bowl XX. Though Perry scored on the offensive side of the ball, his primary position was defensive tackle, where he played in Bud Ryan’s famed “46 Defense.”

Speaking of defense, Clemson has had its share of good moments on that side of the ball, as well. Charlie Waters, who played wide receiver and quarterback at Clemson, won two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys as a safety. He played in five Super Bowls from 1971-’79, more than any other Tiger.

Known as a key member of the 1970s “Doomsday Defense,” Waters holds the NFL record for most career postseason interceptions with nine.

Personally, I loved watching former Clemson star Grady Jarrett spin and slam New England quarterback Tom Brady to the ground in Super Bowl XLI. Jarrett finished the game with three sacks, tying a Super Bowl record.

If the Falcons would have won the game, I think Jarrett would have earned MVP honors.

One of Jarrett’s former Clemson teammates, Byron Maxwell was a key member of Seattle’s Legion of Boom in 2013. The cornerback had a bone-jarring tackle in Super Bowl XLVIII that caused a fumble in the third quarter during their 43-8 win over Denver.

Like Jarrett, former Clemson linebacker Levon Kirkland had a memorable Super Bowl performance despite losing to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXX. His sack of Troy Aikman gave the ball back to the Pittsburgh Steelers with a chance to beat the Cowboys late in the game.

Kirkland finished the night with 10 tackles to go with his sack, again, like Jarrett, Kirkland likely would have been named the game’s MVP had the Steelers won the game.

In Super Bowl LIV, Kanas City cornerback Bashaud Breeland recorded the first takeaway of the game, intercepting a pass from San Francisco’s Jimmy Garoppolo. The interception was the first by a former Clemson player in a Super Bowl all-time.

Breeland’s interception set up the first points for the Chiefs in their Super Bowl victory.