The longest ongoing football rivalry other than the conference will not be played in 2020 after SEC school presidents vote on Thursday.
Clemson and South Carolina will not meet in the 2020 season after the SEC voted to follow in the footsteps of the Big Ten and PAC-12 with a conference-only schedule. They are scheduled to start on September 26 with a list of 10 games.
The Tigers and Gamecocks have met on the field each season since 1909, which is the second longest rivalry streak of any kind (Minnesota-Wisconsin played in a 113th consecutive season last year).
“We believe these schedule adjustments offer the best opportunity to complete an entire season by giving us the ability to adapt to the fluid nature of the virus and the flexibility to adjust schedules as necessary if disruptions occur,” said the SEC commissioner, Greg Sankey, in a news story. launching. “It is unfortunate that some of our traditional rivalries outside of the conference cannot take place in 2020 under this plan, but these are unique and hopefully temporary circumstances that require unconventional measures.”
The ACC voted Wednesday to allow its members to play a non-conference game within their home state, but the SEC’s later move means ACC-SEC rivalries like the Palmetto Bowl, Louisville-Kentucky, Florida-Florida State. and Georgia-Georgia Tech are out of this campaign.
Clemson has won six consecutive games over South Carolina and a seventh consecutive victory would have tied for the longest streak in the series (1934-40).
The only non-conference Clemson game is yet to be determined. The other home games scheduled outside of the conference this season previously were Akron and The Citadel.
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– Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) July 30, 2020
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