Their win percentage the last 40+ years is good enough to have them in the discussion

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Jan 2, 2025
12:42:38pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

Their win percentage the last 40+ years is good enough to have them in the discussion

The term "blue blood" is so ambiguous as to be almost meaningless though.

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Indy Coug

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This is the problem. I saw a recent poll on CB and almost no one thought that Clemson was a blue blood.

kimdaddy35 Former Fly Half

Jan 2, 12:22pm

Clemson won a natty in 1981 though

arizonacougarfan

Jan 2, 12:25pm

Yes they did, one of the most fluky nattys of all time (not that they didn't deserve it, but that

kimdaddy35

Jan 2, 12:31pm

There is a rule as old as time that says- No team with the colors of Purple and Orange can ever be a blue blood program!

PJMort

Jan 2, 12:28pm

Clemson's national win% ranking (through 2023)

Indy Coug

Jan 2, 12:29pm

They've been a football centric school in a basketball centric conference.

Ghost of Peanut

Jan 2, 12:31pm

And yet 1978 was the first time they finished in the top 10. Before 2013 they had 5

kimdaddy35

Jan 2, 12:41pm

Their win percentage the last 40+ years is good enough to have them in the discussion

Indy Coug

Jan 2, 12:42pm

I don't disagree which is why I put them in the next category. But from 1992 to 2011 they never

kimdaddy35

Jan 2, 12:46pm

Blue blood has more to do with traditional 'greatness' and history – the list

Benfica1

Jan 2, 12:49pm

Nebraska is an interesting case study. Yes 25 years ago I would have considered them a blue blood.

kimdaddy35

Jan 2, 1:03pm

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