CLEMSON -- The Clemson University football team needed an emotional rope, so you have to imagine that the best news around here this week has been Oregon State's win against top-ranked Southern Cal. ...With Maryland (3-1) in Death Valley at noon today for the first of seven straight Atlantic Coast Conference games, the Tigers (3-1) still have an opportunity to make a run at the national championship -- like the 18 or 19 teams ahead of them in the polls.
Final score: Maryland 20, Clemson 17.
Hey, schadenfreude might be all we have this year.