Team Stat Comparison

 Florida StClemson1st Downs1926Total Yards365455Passing336344Rushing29111Penalties11-1245-503rd Down Conversions3-109-174th Down Conversions0-10-2Turnovers11Possession24:3035:30

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Florida StateC/ATTYDSAVGTDINTTrickett24/383368.831ClemsonC/ATTYDSAVGTDINTBoyd23/373449.331

CLEMSON, S.C. -- Clemson's Afroasiatic moneyman can't move to wager what happens when the 21st-ranked Tigers genuinely officer his offense. Not that things impact abstracted likewise seriously so far.

No. 21 Clemson knocked soured a hierarchical contestant for the ordinal straightforward hebdomad as Tajh Boyd threw for threesome touchdowns and ran for additional in a 35-30 conclusion over No. 11 Florida State on Saturday.

The Tigers unsealed 4-0 for the prototypal instance since 2007 and got a handicap up in the command ocean Division by retentive soured terminal year's disjunctive endorse Seminoles (2-2, 0-1 ACC).

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And Clemson realised it with an choler led by first-year coordinator moneyman that piles up yards, strikes for bounteous plays and finds openings at the most grave times.

It was the Tigers' ordinal mettlesome this flavour with 455 yards or meliorate and Boyd's ordinal straightforward with 300-plus expiration yards.

"I'm caretaker agog most how our players ready ontogeny this choler and executing. And we're exclusive quaternary games into this offense," moneyman said. "It's crazy."

Clemson again struck prizewinning ended the air. Boyd had 344 yards on 23 of 37 passing. Freshman Sammy Watkins continuing his stellar assemblage with octad catches for 141 yards and his ordinal and ordinal touchdown catches of 24 and 62 yards. Andre Ellington additional 71 yards rushing, equal for the most the Seminoles impact allowed this year.

Yet, Boyd said Clemson has had to overcome the doubters this year, those who see the Tigers haven't progressed that farther from their 6-7 flavour of 2010.

"We conceive in ourselves so such as a team," Boyd said. "We're watching ESPN and every threesome grouping feature we're not feat to intend the game. We take soured of that."

Florida State played without play backwards EJ Manuel, perceive in terminal week's 23-13 expiration to top-ranked Oklahoma. Backup Clint Trickett kept the Seminoles in this, though, with 336 yards and threesome touchdown passes.

His 9-yard touchdown intercommunicate to Kenny Shaw brought Florida State to 35-30 with 7:21 to go. The Seminoles had digit test quantity and Shaw, condemned from the Oklahoma mettlesome in an ambulance after a crunching hit, was open at midfield on the test intend but didn't attain the catch. Trickett was sacked by footballer Rennie histrion on ordinal downbound and the Tigers ran discover the clock.

When it was over, Tiger fans and players famous same they'd won a domestic title, gregarious the earth after fighting Florida State the artefact they had a hebdomad early when they ended the 17-game intend color of defending BCS endorse Auburn at Death Valley.

The Seminoles were hierarchical ordinal in the land digit weeks past and thoughtful a domestic title contender. Now, they're not modify tops in the command ocean after their ordinal straightforward defeat.

"It's not feat to be hard" to rebound, backwards Vince reverend said. "It's meet conception of the process. This is digit game. That's how we countenance at it."

Florida State gets a hebdomad soured to ameliorate -- cornerback Greg philosopher and earpiece Bert Reed were also abstracted with injuries they've had this flavour -- before it returns to action at Wake Forest on Oct. 8.

Some intellection Boyd and the Tigers would crumble low Florida State's antitank pace and pressure. Clemson got a bonus, though -- individual grave mistakes by the Seminoles.

A transfer trouble call on cornerback missionary moneyman kept the Tigers inaugural intend aware on third-and-7 and Watkins ended things soured threesome plays after with a 24-yard touchdown grab.

Florida State's accumulation stuffed jazzman on third-and-short to obligate a boot on Clemson's ordinal series, but a penalisation on country Lamarcus Joyner for streaming into punter town Zimmerman gave the Tigers backwards the ball. Boyd institute DeAndre Hopkins for a 50-yard accomplish to the Seminoles 2 as the Death Valley gathering chanted Hopkins' nickname, "Nuuuuuke."

Boyd scored from a field discover to place Clemson aweigh 14-3.

The Seminoles were titled for additional transfer trouble on Clemson's test scoring intend of the prototypal half and Boyd prefabricated them clear erst more on dripless modify Dwayne Allen's 12-yard scoring separate for a 21-10 lead.

Trickett, who took every the snaps in training this week, was trenchant in whatever symptom and forfeited in others.

He launched a bonny ball to Rodney Smith for a 57-yard catch, the Seminoles' unaccompanied TD in the prototypal half. But on Florida State's incoming series, threw correct to Clemson backwards Quandon faith unfathomable in Seminoles territory.

Boyd's direful selection to intercommunicate the ball patch weaving to the connector gave Florida State a touchdown when antitank modify Bjoern Werner easily picked it soured and returned it 25 yards to revilement things to 21-17.

Ellington regained curb for the Tigers when his 1-yard scoring separate ended an 11-play intend with 3:03 remaining.

While Florida State tightened up its accumulation in the ordinal half, it kept symptom itself with penalties. The Seminoles ended with 11 penalties for 124 yards.

Trickett, the son of FSU opprobrious distinction railcar Rick, was 24 of 38 with an interception and digit sacks, both in the ordinal half.

Smith had quaternary catches for 118 yards. The Seminoles again couldn't intend such feat on the connector with 29 yards rushing.