“It was an ugly history. And then football, when it started being played in 1894, became kind of an outlet for these emotions—to beat up on each other, ” as historian Evan Faulkenbury put the bitter history between South Carolina and Clemson. In 1896, the Gamecocks witnessed a crowd of over 2,000 people hooting at their football stadium. It was their first rivalry game, which was more like a family feud dating back for ages, and it has only grown bigger and explosive over the years. But with the SEC moving to newer heights, will it affect the Tigers’ duel with the Gamecocks, the way they have done for ages?
The Palmetto Bowl is the battleground where the Clemson-South Carolina face off, complete with bragging rights. As per the new intel by the Clemson Insider, the answer to that is pos