COLUMBIA – It is game day at Williams-Brice Stadium where the Tigers battle in-state rival South Carolina.
Clemson hopes to finish the regular season 7-5 and improve their bowl destination.
Location: Williams-Brice Stadium
Kickoff: Noon
Television: SEC Network
Announcers: Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb, Alyssa Lang
2025 Record: Clemson 6-5, South Carolina 4-7
ACC Record: Clemson 4-4
Series History: Clemson leads series 73-44-4
Last Meeting: South Carolina defeated Clemson 17-14 on November 30, 2024
Clemson will conclude its 2025 regular season slate on Saturday, Nov. 29 when the Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks meet in search of Palmetto State supremacy for the 122nd time in series history. Kickoff at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia is set for noon ET on SEC Network.
One of the nation’s most-played rivalries has been belonged to the visitors in each of the series’ last five installments. The last win by a home team in the series was a 56-35 Clemson win during the Tigers’ 2018 national championship season. In the years since, Clemson won in Columbia in 2019, 2021 and 2023, South Carolina won in Clemson in 2022 and 2024, and the series was not played amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
According to Stats Perform, the Clemson-South Carolina series is one of only eight active series in the FBS in which the road team has won each of the last five or more contests. The Bowling Green-Central Michigan series has seen seven straight road wins, and seven series have an active streak of five such games: Clemson-South Carolina, Georgia Tech-Pitt, Louisiana-South Alabama, Louisiana Tech-Western Kentucky, Bowling Green Buffalo, Arkansas-Auburn and USC-UCLA.
Clemson has won in each of its last five trips to Williams-Brice Stadium, and this week the Tigers will attempt to earn a sixth straight road win against South Carolina for the first time since the 1989-99 seasons. A victory would pull Clemson within one of the record for the longest road winning streak by either team in series history (seven by Clemson from 1934-40).
WHAT TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEK
– The 2025 Tigers attempting to become the first team in Clemson history to win seven games in a season in which the team started the year with one win or fewer through four games.
- Clemson attempting to improve to 74-44-4 all-time against South Carolina. Clemson’s 73 all-time wins against South Carolina are the program’s most against any opponent.
- Clemson entering the game having led the all-time
series with the Gamecocks for 46,398 consecutive days
(127 years, 12 days) as of kickoff time on Saturday. South
Carolina won the series opener in 1896 before Clemson
evened the series in 1897. Clemson won the third game
in the series on Nov. 17, 1898 to take a 2-1 series lead,
a lead Clemson hasn’t relinquished. - Clemson entering the game having won eight of the last 10 games in the series. In that span, Clemson has outscored South Carolina, 346-159, an average margin of 18.7 points per game. Clemson’s two losses in the last 10 games in the rivalry have come by a combined four points.
- Clemson attempting to move its all-time road record against South Carolina to 55-32-3. Clemson’s 54 current road wins at South Carolina are nearly double its most all time road wins against any other opponent, as Clemson’s second-most road wins against an opponent are its 28 at Wake Forest. The Tigers have more road wins against the
Gamecocks in Columbia (54) than they have total wins against all but three programs (South Carolina, 73; Wake Forest, 72; and NC State, 61).
NO QUIT IN THESE TIGERS
In the immediate aftermath of a nail-biting 20-19 road win at No. 19 Louisville on Nov. 14, Head Coach Dabo Swinney spoke passionately to ESPN’s Paul Carcaterra about the fight of his 2025 team.
“The tougher it’s gotten, the closer they’ve become, the stronger they’ve gotten and the more they’ve dug in,” Swinney bellowed. “And that’s not normal, not in today’s world. That’s not normal. Usually when you have some
adversity, you divide, [and] people are looking for the sideline or the training room, but not these Tigers, not these seniors… The record don’t define you; how you respond is what defines you — in everything. In life, in football, everything. Our record ain’t what we want it to be, but we’ve got a hell of a great group of young people right there… A lot of people have quit on ’em. There ain’t no quit in that bunch, and there ain’t no quit in me. Go Tigers!”
Clemson’s 1-3 start through four games in 2025 was its first 1-3 start since 2004. That year, Tommy Bowden’s Clemson team went 5-2 over its seven remaining games to finish the year with a 6-5 record. The Tigers earned bowl
eligibility that year but declined postseason opportunities.
Clemson has opened a season with one win or fewer through four games 30 times in its 130-season history.
The Tigers have fought back to finish .500 or better in nine of those campaigns (1906, 1914, 1934, 1937, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1985 and 2004).
SWINNEY IN REMATCHES
Clemson has suffered 52 losses under Head Coach Dabo Swinney. Clemson has had 37 previous opportunities to avenge its most recent loss against an
opponent, going 25-12 in those contests. Including South Carolina, there are 15 opponents against which Swinney’s squads are awaiting a rematch since Clemson’s last loss in the series: Nebraska, TCU, USF, West Virginia, Ohio State, Tennessee, Miami (Fla.), Georgia, Texas, LSU, Georgia Tech, Syracuse, SMU and Duke.
CLEMSON VS. SEC OPPONENTS
Clemson is 21-17 against SEC foes under the guidance of Head Coach Dabo Swinney. The Tigers are 15-11 against the conference in the College Football
Playoff era, including a 12-6 mark in regular season play.
Clemson’s 21 wins against SEC opponents under Swinney include wins against South Carolina (9), Auburn (4), Alabama (2), Kentucky (2), Texas A&M (2), Georgia (1) and LSU (1). Clemson also has two wins against Oklahoma under Swinney prior to Oklahoma’s move to the SEC.
TCI Predictions
Robert – South Carolina 27, Clemson 20
Will – Clemson 24, South Carolina 23
JP – South Carolina 20, Clemson 16
Clemson Athletic Communications contributed to this article