College football's strange but true historical facts for each Top 25 team College football is a beautiful connection of sport and weird history. Using Mark Schlabach's Way-Too-Early Top 25 assembled in February and some help from my colleagues, I've collected each team's strangest historical fact. Some of these are going to be more recent (and surprising) than others, but the variation is representative of how random college football is. At the very worst, you could use this list as a means to remind yourself of these teams' past oddities once when we get back to college football. 1. Clemson Could you imagine, say, Kirby Smart, being the referee for a Clemson-South Carolina game? Because on Oct. 30, 1902, the only referee for a Clemson-South Carolina game was Furman coach Col. Charles S. Roller Jr. Clemson had beaten Furman 28-0 the week before. Bronco Armstrong, a Yale player and official, was going to be the umpire, but he was in a railroad accident on his way to ...