1989 Clemson vs South Carolina Football: 45-0

Before 56-7, before 63-17....there was 45-0. On a chilly November night in Columbia in 1989, Danny Ford broke out the orange britches for their first road game, and rookie head coach Sparky Woods was introduced to the domination that so many Gamecocks before and since have come to know so well. As Woods and injured QB Todd Ellis both watched helplessly from the sideline, Clemson utilized a dominant rushing attack led by Terry Allen and a bevy of sledgehammer fullbacks, as the Clemson offensive line pushed Carolina's defense halfway to Bull Street all night long, stopping only to celebrate their touchdowns. Not to be undone, the Clemson defense unleashed the full force of its legion of linebackers and linemen, as Levon Kirkland and Vance Hammond turned garnet and black to black and blue while consistently setting up shop in the Carolina backfield.

In what would prove to be Danny Ford's last entry in the Palmetto Bowl series, the Tigers created a manhandled masterpiece that has lived in infamy in Gamecock lore and proven to be one of Clemson's finest moments in a rivalry that has featured many high points for the good guys. Clemson would go on to similarly destroy West Virginia and QB Major Harris in the Gator Bowl to close out their third consecutive 10-win season and end the Danny Ford era in earnest, but even with the Gator Bowl annihilation and similarly dominant display versus Bobby Bowden in Tallahassee earlier in the season, 1989 will always be remembered as the year that the Tigers put on their orange pants and turned the lights out in Williams-Brice Stadium. Not until 2003 would another partisan Gamecock crowd clear out of their industrial park so quickly with the realization that the more things change, the more they stay the same. As Tiger Rag serenaded the unwashed masses of garnet and black on their way out of the stadium, a faint "never again" could be heard somewhere in the orange echoes of time.

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