Cade Klubnik threw for 268 yards and ran for a touchdown, Jones went for a 12-yard TD run on his final pick and Clemson closed a disappointing season with its fourth straight win after starting 3-5.
Christian McCaffrey gained 142 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown in his first game against Carolina since he was traded away three years ago, leading the San Francisco 49ers to a 20-9 victory over the Panthers on Monday night.
Joyce Edwards scored 25 points and Ta’Niya Latson 24 to lead No. 2 South Carolina to its most points in coach Dawn Staley’s 18 seasons with a 121-49 romp over Queens on Sunday.
South Carolina State defeated Delaware State 28-17 in a regular-season finale Saturday to decide the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title with its seventh straight win.
LaNorris Sellars ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more, including a 75-yard strike to his younger brother Jayden Sellers on the game’s first snap, in South Carolina’s 51-7 rout of Coastal Carolina.
Newberry College (10-1) won their eighth consecutive game and broke Kentucky State’s eight-game winning streak with a 45-24 victory in the first round of the NCAA Division 2 playoffs.
In one of the wildest finishes in all of college football action on Saturday, the Benedict College Tigers stunned the Wingate Bulldogs on a last-second touchdown to take a 25-24 victory in the first round of the NCAA Division II championship.
Irmo native Antonio Williams caught two first-half touchdown passes from senior quarterback Cade Klubnik to lead the Tigers to a 45-10 victory over FCS-opponent Furman.
South Carolina receiver Nyck Harbor, who leads the team with five touchdown catches and 21 yards per reception this season, didn’t play for the Gamecocks against Coastal Carolina on Saturday.
Watch round round three playoff action from around the Midlands.
