I have been telling everyone that Clemson's tailgating is way better than anything at Kyle. Most people here said that I was crazy. Now that you have been to Clemson, what are your thoughts?

WAAAAY better. This is no contest.

With the help of about 30 Aggies possibly more, the Clemson Fire Truck tailgate floated 5 kegs and we were still craving more. It was a pleasure to tailgate and party with you all.

Myself and 2 friends made the trip. We were very impressed with the tailgating. A&M probably does the best in the stadium during the game. Clemson's tailgating is an entire gameday experience. They are tailgating early in the morning till the game. More like a festival atmosphere. The fans were great. My friends and I had a blast, except for the score of course.

Three buddies & I made it to campus at about 1pm. We never had to buy beer or food all day. We couldnt pass a tailgating spot without having things offered to us. We were full and quite toasted before the game. Then there was more of the same after the game. Thanks alot Clemson fans, you guy were awesome. Had a great time.

We also got SMOKED by some girls in flip cup & beer pong.

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the last comment, i hope we develop that type of gameday tailgating.

Clemson's taligating was better than I imagined.

We're still trying to play catch-up to many of the SEC schools when it comes to tailgating...I knew of Clemson's rep in this area and wasn't disappointed.

I don't know if any of them will read this, but to the denizens of the Nowell tailgate, you were the best hosts and I was truly humbled by your generosity to a complete stranger...T-bird, Alice, Chris, John, Greg, Paige, Sara, Carrie, Mark and anyone else I forgot, thank you very much for a wonderful time. I won't soon forget it.

I'm with everyone else that says they had an incredible time before the game (or the entire weekend, for that matter). The Clemson tailgating scene seems to me to be the ACC's version of LSU's scene, and just like LSU's, you'd be hard pressed to find a bad time. We went to the bars for the first part of the day, then went through a group of the tailgate lots, and, like everyone else, we found ourselves being offered everything. Great people, very hospitable!! Very impressed, and thanks CU folks, for a good time.

our tailgating is getting better, but a handful of our fans need to stop being lame and start tailgating instead of hanging out in the MSC or parking at the mall.

Students are starting to show up in hordes. There is no reason we shouldn't have at least 50,000 tailgaters outside on campus.

Screw northgate, screw house parties, screw being lame and showing up a hour or two before the game, and come tailgate.

AOC- I totally agree with you...

But even if that magically happened, we still have A LOT to do before we are anywhere near Clemson. For those who didn't get to go, you missed some awesome times.

Clemson had the second best tailgating scene I've been to. LSU being the first. Good lord, the Clemson women. Here's to drinking more Busch Light this weekend than my entire life.

I have been to Alabama, Notre Dame and UF and they all KILL our tail gate. It's not really that good here. Not sure why everyone says it is.

well, we do have the numbers, but our tailgating is so spread out... Byrne needs to open up Simpson Drill Field and several other parking lots so people can tailgate in them.

You will also see as the season ticket holders get younger, the tailgating get better.

too many people just get smashed at Northgate before the games instead of tailgating...

"...you're killing your father Larry..."

I know, and that needs to change. Tailgating is much more fun than going to a bar. I can go to a bar any day of the week, but tailgating is apart of what makes college football atmospheres so great.

Clemson fans and tailgating were awesome! From Friday afternoon till 2:30 a.m./ on Saturday following the game, we never bought a drink. We had tons of invites to tailgates, but couldn't get to most of them because we kept getting stopped and invited to others.

Great fans and smoking hot girls. Thanks, Clemson!

ONe of the condo complexes had a sign up - tailgating parking spots on sale starting at 21,000.

You'd really have to like tailgating.

Who else saw the school bus with the chairs on top that said Cheap Seats or something similar? Nice touch.

we stayed with the Cheap Seats guys all weekend. We met them here last year, and they gave us a place to stay this year.

Great guys!

The bus called "the cheapseats" is more famous for baseball games. They set it up in right center field and its easily the most rowdy group at beautiful tiger field. The bus was outfitted by Clemson students who were finishing school in May and we heard they were looking for someone to take over the tradition...sounds like they did.

I used to know the guys who lived in that white house that is now the "Mellow Mushroom" (site of Cheap Seats bus). Man, talk about some great gameday partying. The perfect location, plus you could logroll to the Esso.

By noon on Saturday there were tailgates everywhere and they lasted several hours after the game. Very nice people, nice looking women, etc. just as everyone has said.

A&M's tailgating scene is improving, but still needs to make up some ground. There aren't enough people who do it.

Tailgating was fantastic...these guys do it right! Also, restroom facilities at the the field house were available for use, and they had plenty of portables. This is always a problem around Reed, where it is locked up and too few portables are available. Long story short, I think A&M wants to promote some of the pre-game activities and not encourage the tailgating.

We tailgated til 5am! It made the drive back a little rough!

Nice to have the relief of the tailgating competition. Forget winning football games,
let's kickass in the parking lots with great
buffets, cocktails, recipes to make one forget
all about football. Geez.

not promoting tailgating is rediculous. Tailgating is what makes college football great.

I'll tell A&M to **** off if that is what they really want.

who gives a sh*t?

I do. Our pregame atmosphere blows right now compared to other "true" football schools. Well, actually the Big 12 as a whole blows compared to the SEC and ACC.

Our pregame could be 10X better.

Ok............I'll be all for it too if it will help us win a freakin game.

No Contest

Clemson is so much better it isn't compareable.

I can't imagine that there is a college football atmosphere better than Clemson.

Clemson tailgating is in a league of their own (LSU could be included with them) but they are the best when it comes to pre-game tailgating. It was amazing. Something like 150,000 tailgaters. Half of the people tailgating don't even go to the game. They were awesome and glad we went, TOO BAD WE DIDN"T GO FOR TWO!!

Thanks Fran (Homer)

Clemson tailgating was very impressive. We arrived at around 6:30 AM to lot 13, and by 7:30 AM cars were lining up at the lot 13 gate to get in.

The gates opened at 8 and by 9:00 the tailgating was in full swing.

I didn't realize the size of the tailgating until we walked up to club Esso, there were tailgaters up and down the main road past the Esso.

To rip a lyric, "The tailgating goes on for ever and the party never ends" best sums up my impression of Clemson tailgating.

for those that went and were impressed by the Clemson tailgating... do you tailgate at home games or go to northgate? If you don't tailgate, then get out there and do it. We can have that same type of atmosphere.

Clemson--by FAR. The entire campus was strewn with tailgaters.