One Clemson tradition has been ranked among the nation’s best.
247Sports has ranked the 10 Best Entrances in College Football, with the Tigers’ longstanding tradition of touching Howard’s Rock as the team runs down the iconic hill coming in at No. 5.
“The Clemson football team taking a lap around the outside of the stadium in buses builds anticipation for one of the sport’s most iconic entrances. The Tigers are far from the only squad that touch an item, statue or sign on their way onto the field, but when they rub Howard’s Rock — a quartzite chunk from Death Valley, Calif. gifted to coach Frank Howard in the 1960s — and run down the hill behind their east end zone, they exude the magic of college football. The cherry on top is the crowd’s deafening C-L-E-M-S-O-N spellout.“
It’s an entrance that Brent Musburger infamously tabbed as “The Most Exciting 25 Seconds in College Football.”
South Carolina’s 2001 entrance ranks a spot behind Clemson at No. 6.
Here is the complete Top 10:
- Virginia Tech: Enter Sandman
- Florida State: Osceola and Renegade
- Auburn: War Eagle
- Colorado: Ralphie
- Clemson: The Hill and Howard’s Rock
- South Carolina: 2001
- Tennessee: Running Through the T
- Nebraska: Tunnel Walk
- Texas Tech: Masked Rider
- Baylor: Baylor Line