Florida State travels up to Clemson Saturday as a +10 dog, which would have seemed unfathomable a couple of months ago. As a Nole it’s great to have this game mean something again. Anyways there’s a million FSU content people out there who do a much better job analyzing the actual game – let’s get down to a visual preview of what this game might look like.
Tigers Uniforms
Clemson has a really nice uniform set – clean and traditional. They have striped pants and a paw on each shoulder and that’s about it. They have orange, white and purple helmets/pants that they pair with an orange helmet. Under Dabo Swinney – Clemson almost always wears an orange jersey at home with white pants UNLESS they are playing for some sort of championship (Atlantic Division, ACC, South Carolina State Title, Bowl Game or National Title). In that case, they wear orange pants – you may have seen a #OrangeBritches hashtag out there on Twitter. Clemson also has worn a purple alternate sparingly under Dabo. Clemson has paired purple with orange or white pants in the past, but I don’t recall anything but mono-purple since at least Tommy Bowden era.
Here’s a quick preview of all Clemson’s current uni options:
Clemson vs FSU History
With the exception of 2020, the Noles have played Clemson every single year since joining the ACC in 1992.
In 16 matchups up at Clemson, Florida State has worn gold helmets and white jerseys in each game (duh) and has worn gold pants 8, garnet 4 and white 4 times apiece. Clemson has worn its all orange 8 times, white pants 7 times and a WTF Purple & Orange combo once in 2005.
The Noles record at Clemson in each combo:
Gold/White/Gold 4-4, .500
Gold/White/Garnet 3-1, .750
Gold/White/White 1-3, .250
News & Notes for this weekend
Clemson plans to honor the late Bobby Bowden with a modified version of the Bobby logo FSU has used all season. Clemson will also have pink lines at the 20 yard line for Clemson’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness game. A preview of the field from Austin Pendergist (@apthirteen on Twitter).
My prediction
This is really boring – but FSU hasn’t worn its gold pants all season, so I think we see them Saturday. Clemson goes Orange, Orange & White while the Noles go Gold, White and Gold.
Go Noles.
Blast from the Past
Florida State Uniform Database 