Andre Brown made a nice run for a score and Daniel Evans had a nice pass to Blackman for a TD.

During the game, the Pack honored the school's 1957 ACC football champions and the 1967 "White Shoes" team.

At least Wolfpack fans had something to cheer Saturday.

The rest of the game belonged to Clemson. The 15th-ranked Tigers pounded the Pack 42-20 at Carter-Finley Stadium, piling up 608 yards in offense and allowing those dressed in orange in the crowd of 56,903 to thoroughly enjoy themselves on a sunny, humid day.

How bad was it for State -- on the receiving end?

"It's the most frustrating thing in the world," Pack linebacker Ernest Jones said. "It's like a bully keeps picking on you and you can't do anything about it."

The Tigers (4-0, 2-0 ACC) put up some staggering offensive numbers: 32 first downs, 340 yards rushing, 268 yards passing and 37 minutes in possession time. Tailbacks James Davis and C.J. Spiller combined for 280 of the rushing yards -- Davis with 166, Spiller with 114 -- while junior quarterback Cullen Harper was 25-of-39 passing with a pair of TD throws.

"It's rather embarrassing," Jones said.

State (1-3, 0-2) could only manage a meager 202 yards in total offense in dropping its eighth straight ACC game. The Pack lost starting quarterback Harrison Beck to a right knee injury in the first quarter, but that's not why State lost. The Tigers overpowered and pummeled State up front.

Yes, like a bully.

"We're not a very good football team -- it's pretty obvious after today," NCSU coach Tom O'Brien said. "We've got to face the facts.

"They wore us down and wore us out. They could have done whatever they wanted to do. We didn't tackle 'em and we didn't stop 'em."

As O'Brien put it, the Pack's defense simply couldn't get off the field and the Pack's offense couldn't stay on it. Clemson led 17-7 after the first quarter, 27-14 at halftime and 37-14 after three quarters.

"They dominated us at the line of scrimmage," O'Brien said. "We got overwhelmed."

Blackman's 99-yard kickoff return broke the NCSU record set Oct. 5, 1946 -- Howard Turner's 98-yarder against Clemson. Blackman bolted down the right sideline, stiff-arming Clemson's Jacoby Ford the last 10 yards, and State soon had a 7-7 tie.

But Spiller broke off a 44-yard scoring run, Davis had a 3-yard TD and Mark Buchholz kicked field goals of 28 and 46 yards for the 27-14 halftime cushion. Buchholz badly missed a 51-yarder on the last play of the half but the Pack was ruled offside.

Buchholz tried again. Right through the uprights. It was that kind of day for Clemson -- and the Pack.

Brown had a 17-yard scoring run in the second quarter as State hurt Clemson out of a no-huddle offense, and Evans found Blackman on a 9-yard TD pass in the fourth period.

But State's two-point conversion try after Blackman's catch was another Pack disaster -- Michael Hamlin intercepted Evans' short pass and went the distance for two more Clemson points and a 39-20 lead.

That kind of day.

State led the ACC in third-down defense, but allowed Clemson to convert nine of 18 third-down attempts.

That kind of game.

State was coming off a 38-17 win over Wofford, and Jones had "season" and "killa" written on his eye black. He said it was supposed to mean "killer season," perhaps jump-started by an upset of Clemson.

"I guess you can say we definitely got killed by Clemson," the senior said. "We were on too high a pedestal after Wofford and this brought us down to reality."

Where does the Pack go from here?

"I guess we're at the bottom right now," Jones said. "You can't really go down any further. Just head for the top."

What can be done?

"Look forward, never look back," senior defensive end Martrel Brown said. "Can't look in the rearview mirror. You'll wreck."

Again.