Key Moments:
Intro - 0:00
Outside Stadium - 0:07
Walking In - 0:45
Clemson Entrance - 3:22
1st Half - 5:18
4th Quarter - 11:10
Overtime - 16:33
End of Game - 19:09
Crowd Noise Leaderboard - 20:28
Noise (Decibel X App):
Peak - 110.9 dB ()
Avg - N/A
Seat:
Section TDT, Row A, Seat 12
Price:
$253.03
Attendance:
81,500 (100.0%)
The Florida State Seminoles beat the Clemson Tigers in OT on September 23rd, 2023, 31-24 at Clemson Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. This is my POV of the game, from the stands.
Frank Howard Field at Clemson Memorial Stadium, known as "Death Valley", is home to the Clemson Tigers, an NCAA Division I FBS football team located in Clemson, South Carolina. Built in 1941-1942, the stadium has seen expansions throughout the years with the most recent being the WestZone with Phase 1 construction beginning in 2004 and completing in 2015 with the addition of the Oculus, the final piece of Phase 3. Phase 1 of the EastZone project began in 2020.
Prior to the completion of Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte, Memorial Stadium served as the home venue for the National Football League (NFL)'s Carolina Panthers during the team's inaugural 1995 season.
Currently, the stadium is the largest in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
The Clemson-Florida State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Clemson Tigers football team of Clemson University and Florida State Seminoles football team of Florida State University. The schools have played each other annually since 1992. Both universities are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), and since the ACC initiated divisional play in 2005, both teams have competed in the ACC's Atlantic Division. For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the matchup was known alternatively as the Bowden Bowl for the father, former head coach Bobby Bowden of the Seminoles, and the son, Tommy Bowden, formerly head coach of the Tigers.
Similar to a period in the late 1980s, the now annual football game has recently seen a resurgence with national implications as both programs have returned to the national spotlight. Since Clemson’s current head coach Dabo Swinney arrived on campus in 2003 as an assistant, the Tigers have won 13 of the last 19 games in this series. In 2016, CBS Sports named the Clemson-Florida State matchup as "the best annual game in college football", stating "Clemson-Florida State has supplanted Alabama-LSU as the one annual game you can bank on needing to watch to figure out the postseason." Both programs have accounted for over 30 ACC titles, and have represented the conference consistently in the post season since 2011.
Florida State currently leads the series 21-15-0, with a one game win streak.