Clemson Can’t Hold A Candle To The Last College Football Team To Go 15-0
The 1897 Penn Quakers went 15-0, allowing just 20 points. John Outland, bottom left, was an All-American tackle that season.Photo: Via Penn Athletics Dabo Swinney was ecstatic, and wrong. After his Clemson Tigers routed Alabama to win the national title, he shouted to the crowd: “There ain’t never been a 15-0 team in college football history.” Several college football teams have gone 15-0 at the lower-level Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA. But there have been two teams at the top level who went at least 15-0. Yale, in 1894, went 16-0. And the last team to go 15-0 in...
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