During Rivalry Week, we will take a look at several characters from Clemson football that had success and made their mark in the Palmetto Bowl.
Clemson football will take on the South Carolina Gamecocks this Saturday night in Death Valley.
The Tigers currently hold a four-game winning streak over the Gamecocks and are looking to tie their record with five-straight against South Carolina with a win this week.
During rivalry week, we will be taking a look at several “Gamecock Killers.”
Today, let’s take a look at our next edition in the series: Mike Williams.
Overpowering…
Mike Williams is famously known for one play against South Carolina. That play came in the final regular season game of his career when the Tigers defeated the Gamecocks 56-7.
As you can see from the video, Williams didn’t just have one single play against South Carolina in that game. He had three touchdowns, scoring more points by himself than the entire Gamecock team.
Williams finished that night with six catches for 100 yards and three touchdowns. This was all coming off a year before where he was sidelined with a neck injury.
Williams will forever be known as the guy that carried a defender into the end zone. He absolutely overpowered the South Carolina secondary that night and could’ve had anything he wanted that night.
If Deshaun Watson had chosen to throw the ball to Williams on any given play, Williams would’ve been able to get open and make the catch. There was just no stopping him and it’s pretty clear that his dominance that night played a huge role in what would be the second largest margin of victory for the Tigers vs. the Gamecocks in history.
In the 2014 season, Williams had three catches for 59 yards, an average of 19.7 yards per catch, against the Gamecocks as well.
We started this series last year. Here’s a look back at three Gamecock Killers we previously highlighted in the series: