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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/dave04atm on 2024-10-31 13:01:28+00:00.
I’m guessing some will be too young to remember, but in the pre-Dabo days, “Clemsoning” was a fairly prevalent verb in the college football lexicon (and sometimes beyond). As defined by Urban Dictionary, Clemsoning is: 1. The act of failing miserably on a grand athletic stage, or when the stakes are high. 2. Record-setting failure, usually reserved for college football.
Basically, Clemson was famous for awhile for collecting inexplicable losses. Nowadays they rarely lose to unranked teams and have a lot of Ws at the highest levels. As a result, the college football world lost a hilarious term (well, hilarious to non-Clemson fans).
So, my question is this: over the last 10 or 15 years, is there another school that might merit being the heir apparent to becoming a verb for inexplicable losses? A team that people think is great each year until they lose one to Northsouthern University.