Clemson rolls over Ga. Tech

Tajh Boyd passed for 340 yards and four touchdowns to break Philip Rivers' Atlantic Coast Conference career record in No. 8 Clemson's 55-31 victory over visiting Georgia Tech on Thursday night.

Boyd has 97 touchdown passes, two more than Rivers - now with the San Diego Chargers - had at North Carolina State from 2000-03. Boyd left the game and headed to the locker room in the third quarter after hurting his collarbone. But a few minutes later, Boyd bounced around the sidelines, tossing a football and said he was OK to reenter the game.

Rodgers pardoned. Forty-three years after he and two other men held up a gas station following a night of drinking, 1972 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers was granted a pardon from the state of Nebraska.

"I feel like the weight for that particular incident is off my shoulders," Rodgers said after he walked out of his Board of Pardons hearing.

Harlon Hill candidates. Zach Zulli (Schwenksville/Perkiomen Valley), a senior quarterback at Shippensburg, was named as one of seven regional finalists for the 2013 Harlon Hill Trophy as Division II's top football player. Other nominees include Bloomsburg running back Franklyn Quiteh, Slippery Rock quarterback Nigel Barksdale, West Chester running back Rondell White (West Chester Rustin), East Stroudsburg quarterback Matt Soltes, Merrimack quarterback Joe Clancy, and Urbana (Ohio) quarterback D.J. Mendenhall.

- Staff and wire reports