Regular season ·

South Carolina beat Clemson

South Carolina8-431
No. 7 Clemson10-230Final
Sat, Nov 26 · Memorial Stadium, Clemson, S.C. · Crowd 81,500 · 63°, fairABC

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

South Carolina beat No. 7 Clemson by 1 point.

Clemson was No. 7 in the AP poll before the game; South Carolina was not ranked.

How the game turned

South Carolina aheadClemson aheadBiggest swingLow: 4%

Q4 2:05 South Carolina 31, Clemson 30

South Carolina 72% to win

Kai Kroeger punt for 45 yds, Antonio Williams returns for 8 yds, Williams fumbled, recovered by Emmanwori

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:15 · South Carolina 0, Clemson 7South Carolina's win chance fell from 18% to 11%.Trotter return TD, Clemson goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q3 3:45 · South Carolina 28, Clemson 30South Carolina's win chance rose from 9% to 23%.Rattler 72-yd TD pass to Wells, cuts it to 30-28
  3. 3Q4 10:54 · South Carolina 31, Clemson 30South Carolina's win chance rose from 24% to 40%.Jeter 35-yd field goal, South Carolina goes ahead 31-30

South Carolina's lowest chance to win was 4 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 2:05 left in the 4th quarter, South Carolina's chance to win went from 44 percent to 72 percent on a fumble.

The score stayed South Carolina 31, Clemson 30.

It was South Carolina's first win over Clemson since the 2013 season, after 7 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Clemson's next game: W 39-10 vs North Carolina, Dec 3

    7 days later
  2. South Carolina's next game: L 38-45 vs Notre Dame in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, Dec 30

    34 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 26, 2022: Clemson 16, South Carolina 7, Nov 25, 2023

    about 12 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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