Coastal will play Clemson in 2009

Fans waiting for a Clemson vs. Coastal football game will not have to wait as long as they originally thought.  The CCU football team has signed a contract to play Clemson in Death Valley on Halloween night in 2009.

This historic game will be the first for CCU against one of the two in-state Football Bowl Subdivision schools and just the second in its brief history.

Coastal heads to Happy Valley to take on Penn State to open the 2008 season. It also will be a homecoming of sorts for Bennett, as he was a graduate assistant under Danny Ford with the Tigers from 1984-86.

This will also be the first time that the Tigers have taken on a member of the Big South Conference during their schedule. Clemson has played current member of the league VMI and in-coming member Presbyterian in their history, but that was prior to the sponsorship of football in the Big South Conference. The last time Clemson played either of them was in 1957 when they defeated Presbyterian a home, 66-0, to open the season.