Clemson vs. Maryland Postgame Notes

Team Notes

• Today was the final meeting between Clemson and Maryland as ACC foes.  The series ends with Clemson ahead, 34-26-2.
• Today won the toss, but deferred for the first time this year.  Clemson had gotten the ball to start the game 17 straight games prior to today.
• This is Clemson’s seventh consecutive win away from home, the longest winning streak away from home since a nine game winning streak from 1978-79.
• Clemson is 6-0 under Tajh Boyd in games played on artificial surface.
• Clemson is now 38-3 when leading going into the fourth quarter under Dabo Swinney, 21-0 over the last three years.
• This was Clemson’s 15^th consecutive victory by double digits over an unranked opponent, second longest streak in the nation behind Alabama’s 25 game streak (including today).
• Clemson had a player with at least 160 yards rushing and a player with at least 160 yards receiving in the same game for the first time in school history.

Individual Notes

• Tajh Boyd went over the 10,000 yard mark in terms of passing yards today and moved into second place on the ACC’s all-time passing yardage list.  He entered the game with 9,992 passing yards and with his 304 yards today, he now has 10, 296 for his career.  He became just the third quarterback in ACC history to reach that milestone.   The others are Philip Rivers of NC State (13,484) and Thadeous Lewis of Duke (10,065).  Both are currently in the NFL, Rivers with San Diego and Lewis with Buffalo.
• Boyd obviously went ahead of Lewis today and is now second in ACC history in passing yardage.
• Boyd had one TD rushing and one passing today and now has 112 for his career.  He has tied the ACC record also held by Philip Rivers of NC State (2000-03).
• Boyd also went over the 11,000 yard mark in terms of total offense.  He needed just 52 yards of total offense to reach that mark today and finished the game with 339.  He now has 11,287,  He is just the second ACC player with at least 11,000 yards of total offense.  The only player ahead of him is Philip Rivers, who had 13,582 yards between 2000-03 for NC State.
• Today was Tajh Boyd‘s 35^th consecutive start at quarterback for Clemson.  The school record is 37 in a row by Charlie Whitehurst, 2002-05.
• Boyd is now 28-7 as a starting quarter.  He has the second most wins in school history trailing only Rodney Williams, who had 32 from 1985-88.  It was Boyd’s 19^th career win in ACC play.
• Chandler Catanzaro moved into fourth place on the ACC career scoring list  today with his 16 points (four field goals and three PATs).  Catanzaro now has 367 career points.  He moved ahead  of Casey Barth of North Carolina (2008-12), who had 358 career points.
• Sammy Watkins had a school record 14 receptions for 163 yards today.  He broke the school record of 13 catches that was set last year by DeAndre Hopkins against Auburn and LSU.
• Watkins had 163 receiving yards, giving him 12 career 110-yard receiving games.  He has now tied Watkins Clemson record for career 100-yard receiving games.
• Roderick McDowell had his second career 100-yard rushing game today with 30 carries for 161  yards.  It was his career high in attempts and rushing yards.  It was the most attempts in a game for a Clemson player since Travis Zachery had 31 attempts for 147 yards against NC State in 2000.
• Vic Beasley had another strip sack today, his third of the year.  He now has 10 sacks in 8 games.
• Spencer Shuey had his third fumble recovery of the year.  He is the first Clemson player with three fumble recoveries in a season since 2008 when Brandon Maye had three.