Harris powers Eagles

BOSTON -- Boston College's Montel Harris set two school records with 264 yards rushing and five touchdowns to lead the Eagles to a 52-20 win over North Carolina State yesterday.

Ten players previously had four touchdown runs for Boston College; the last was Darnell Campbell in 1993.

Harris set the yardage record with a 9-yarder early in the final quarter, surpassing the previous mark of 253, set by Phil Bennett in 1972. He had one more run before leaving for good.

The Eagles (3-2 ACC, 5-2) improved to 5-0 at home this season. N.C. State (0-3, 3-4) dropped its third straight game following conference losses to Wake Forest and Duke.

Boston College first-year coach Frank Spaziani defeated his longtime coaching mate Tom O'Brien.

NC State quarterback Russell Wilson, a former Collegiate standout, had a 1-yard scoring run and was 23 of 40 for 243 yards with one TD.

Boston College quarterback Dave Shinskie threw a 59-yard scoring pass to Colin Larmond Jr. in the first quarter and finished 13 of 25 for 187 yards with two TD passes.

Clemson 38, Wake Forest 3

CLEMSON, S.C. -- C.J. Spiller ran for two touchdowns and Clemson put aside two weeks of turmoil to get back in the ACC's Atlantic Division race with a 38-3 victory over Wake Forest.

Spiller had scoring runs of 66 and 14 yards for the Tigers (2-2 ACC, 3-3), who seemed ready to implode after an unexpected 24-21 loss to Maryland on Oct. 3.

The team held a players only meeting when it returned to campus and an anonymous blog report during the bye week detailed a shouting match at practice between coach Dabo Swinney and offensive coordinator Billy Napier.

Against Wake Forest (2-2, 4-3), though, Clemson showed its resiliency with its best performance of the season.

Freshman quarterback Kyle Parker threw for a score and ran for another. Spiller finished with 106 yards for his 10th career 100-yard game and Clemson's defense sacked ACC pass-efficiency leader Riley Skinner five times.