Sporting News: Clemson has a tough nonconference schedule
CLEMSON --
Clemson will play the 10th most challenging nonconference schedule in the nation, according to the Sporting News.
Three of Clemson's four nonconference games will be against teams that played in bowl games last year, and all four of the nonconference foes won at least eight games in 2010.
Ten of Clemson's 11 Football Bowl Subdivision opponents went to bowl games last year, including six who won at least nine games in 2010. Additionally, Wofford, Clemson's FBS opponent, was 10-3 and reached the second round of the FCS playoffs.
Clemson's three FBS nonconference opponents had a combined 31-10 record last year, a .756 winning percentage.
That list includes defending national champion Auburn, who comes to Clemson on Sept. 17. Troy (8-5) and South Carolina (9-5) also had outstanding seasons in 2010.
Overall, Clemson's 12 opponents in 2011 had a 104-55 record last year, a .654 winning percentage. Each of Clemson's first five opponents won at least eight games, including four in a row that won at least 10 games.
Clemson has a stretch of consecutive games against Auburn (14-0), Florida State (10-4) and Virginia Tech (11-3) between Sept. 24 and Oct. 1 that will be one of the most challenging stretches in school history. All three of those teams played for their respective conference championships last year.
This season, Clemson will play all four schools that played for the ACC and SEC championships last year.
The Auburn Tigers had a 14-0 record last year, including a 27-24 win over Clemson in overtime. Clemson was the only team to take Auburn to overtime last year.
Auburn's appearance will mark the first time the defending national champion has come to Clemson since 1991, when Georgia Tech played at Clemson after having won the title according to the coaches' poll in 1990.
The only year an opponent came to Clemson as the defending national champion was 1981, when Georgia played at Clemson after winning the 1980 title.
Miami (Fla.) (fourth), Florida State (sixth) and Clemson (10th) were the three ACC teams in Sporting News' top 10 for toughest nonconference schedules in the nation.
Clemson opens its ACC schedule against Florida State on Sept. 24 at Memorial Stadium. Last year's game was decided on a 55-yard field goal on the last play of the game, giving the Seminoles a 16-13 victory. Clemson has not lost to Florida State in Memorial Stadium in 10 years.
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Auburn University's football team, the Auburn Tigers, are a member of the SEC's Western Division of the NCAA's Football Bowl Division I Subdivision. Gene Chizik is the head coach of the Auburn Tigers. He replaced Tommy Tuberville in December 2008, following the resignation of Tuberville.
The Tiger's first played football in 1892. The first bowl appearance for the program came in 1936. They played in the Bacardi Bowl's six edition in Havana, Cuba. The Auburn Tigers, as of 2009, have had a total of 78 winning seasons, appeared in 35 bowls, had twenty four season winning nine or more games, ten conference championships and eleven undefeated seasons. Auburn has played in the Southeastern conference since its 1933 inception. The Tigers have won the SEC Conference Championship six times. Since the 1992 conference divisional realignment, Auburn has won six Western Division titles and made three SEC Championship game appearances.
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