Clemson's Harper sets school TD record in rout of Duke

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It was over when... The Tigers put together a 23-point second quarter to come back from a 7-3 deficit at Duke. Gameball goes to... Cullen Harper. The Tigers QB threw two touchdowns and ran for another. Stat of the game... 39. Clemson needed just 39 seconds to score 16 points late in the first half to put the game away. Complete Top 25 Overview

Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	18	11
Total Yards	350	198
Passing	198	170
Rushing	152	28
Penalties	4-35	12-80
3rd Down Conversions	6-14	5-15
4th Down Conversions	0-1	0-0
Turnovers	0	2
Possession	30:17	29:43

Air/Ground Leaders
Clemson Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Harper 17/26 184 2 0 Reese 2/3 14 1 0	Duke Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Lewis 15/26 160 1 1 Asack 2/3 10 0 0
Clemson Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Davis 8 118 1 70 Spiller 8 56 0 17	Duke Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Boyette 11 32 0 8 Boyle 6 16 0 4
Clemson Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Kelly 6 57 2 19 Taylor 4 54 0 26	Duke Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Riley 2 47 1 40 Harris 5 40 0 13

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				CLEM	DUKE
	TD	08:07	Eron Riley 7 Yd Pass From Thaddeus Lewis (Nick Maggio Kick)	0	7
	FG	04:18	Mark Buchholz 39 Yd	3	7
SECOND QUARTER				CLEM	DUKE
	TD	08:34	Aaron Kelly 19 Yd Pass From Cullen Harper (Mark Buchholz Kick)	10	7
	TD	01:10	Cullen Harper 3 Yd Run (Mark Buchholz Kick)	17	7
	SF	00:45	Thaddeus Lewis Tackled By Cortney Vincent In End Zone	19	7
	TD	00:31	C.J. Spiller 84 Yd Kickoff Return (Mark Buchholz Kick)	26	7
THIRD QUARTER				CLEM	DUKE
	TD	10:37	James Davis 70 Yd Run (Mark Buchholz Kick)	33	7
	TD	00:47	Aaron Kelly 5 Yd Pass From Cullen Harper (Mark Buchholz Kick)	40	7
FOURTH QUARTER				CLEM	DUKE
	FG	09:36	Nick Maggio 30 Yd	40	10
	TD	06:49	Brian Linthicum 2 Yd Pass From Tribble Reese (Richard Jackson Kick)	47	10

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Tommy Bowden worried all week that Clemson was in for yet another uninspired visit to Duke. For a while, he was right -- until the offense finally gave the Tigers some breathing room.

Almost immediately after that, the defense and the special teams also got into the scoring act.

Cullen Harper's short scoring run set off a momentum-shifting burst of 16 points in 39 seconds that carried No. 25 Clemson to a 47-10 rout of the Blue Devils on Saturday.

"All of a sudden, we got a big play here, and we got a big play there," Harper said. "That's the fastest I've ever seen 16 points scored."

C.J. Spiller returned a kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown, James Davis had a career-long 70-yard scoring run, Aaron Kelly caught TD passes covering 19 and 5 yards and Harper threw for two scores and set a school record with his Atlantic Coast Conference-leading 23rd touchdown pass.

"We're doing what we didn't do last season: we're playing strong at the end of the season," Davis said. "That's kind of what everybody wanted to see."

The Tigers (7-2, 4-2) won their third straight, shrugging off a slow start with a 23-point second quarter that all but guaranteed they wouldn't leave Wallace Wade Stadium with another loss. Their previous visit to Durham in November 2004 ended with Duke pulling a last-second upset -- and the Blue Devils (1-8, 0-6) haven't won an ACC game since, dropping their 23rd in a row.

"This place will lull you to sleep a little bit, and history indicates that," Bowden said. "We made them real aware of the history up here, and how tough it is to play."

Harper completed 17 of 26 passes for 184 yards and Davis had 118 yards on eight carries for Clemson, which led 10-7 before breaking the game open late in the first half, scoring three times in less than a minute.

Harper's 42-yard pass to a diving Tyler Grisham at the 3 set up the quarterback's first career touchdown run. He rolled right and paused to look for a receiver before plowing into the end zone at the 1:10 mark.

"I could have run it in really easily and quickly, but I guess that's just my mentality -- look, look, look for the pass," Harper said.

Three plays later, Clemson's defense registered a safety when Cortney Vincent and Chris Chancellor smothered a scrambling

"We just had a breakdown that we can't have against a talented ball club like that," Duke defensive lineman Vince Oghobaase said. "It cost us in all three phases."

Earlier in the quarter, Harper put Clemson ahead to stay when his 19-yard scoring pass to Kelly midway through the second quarter gave the Tigers a three-point lead. The pair hooked up again late in the third quarter for a 5-yard touchdown that stretched the lead to 40-7.

"I believe he's been reading about them records, because he could have run some in, but he threw them," Bowden said, laughing.

Lewis completed 15 of 26 passes for 160 yards with one touchdown and one interception against the nation's third-best defense against the pass for the Blue Devils, who lost their sixth straight and have a 36-game losing streak against ranked teams since upsetting then-No. 13 Virginia in 1994.

Duke took a 7-0 lead behind Lewis and Eron Riley. They connected for 40 yards down the left sideline when Riley got behind Clemson cornerback Crezdon Butler and stepped out at the 5, then hooked up again two plays later on a 7-yard score when Riley got behind the Tigers defense in the end zone.

Mark Buchholz capped Clemson's next drive with a 29-yard field goal for Clemson's first points.

Duke has allowed five of its nine opponents to score at least 40 points.

"Sometimes we were in position to make a play and couldn't finish it off," Duke coach Ted Roof said. "In this game, sometimes you have to give credit to really good players."