■ North Carolina will be without long-snapper Trevor Stuart for the rest of the season after he tore the anterior-cruciate ligament in his left knee in last week's 31-17 win over East Carolina.
Stuart, a junior and the long-snapper since the middle of last season, was injured on the fourth play of the game on downfield punt coverage. Walk-on Mark House took over for the rest of the game and will long-snap the rest of the season.
House was the long snapper for six games last season before fracturing a finger.
■ Richard Jackson has put to rest any questions about whether he should be Clemson's place-kicker.
Jackson had one of the top kicking performances in ACC history last week in a 25-7 win over Boston College. He made all six of his field-goal attempts, some in driving rain, to match a school record, and kicked one 52-yard field goal
Jackson is 11 of 13 on field-goal attempts this season, with a 53-yarder in a loss at Georgia Tech.
"Eight months ago, if you would have told me I was here, I would have told you that you were lying and laughed in your face," Jackson said.
■ Coach Ralph Friedgen has had enough losing at Maryland, and after watching his team fall to 1-2 with last week's loss to Middle Tennessee State, his simmering frustration is near the boiling point.
"I'm going to start getting real tough," he said. "We're going to start doing things the right way. We're going to play better (this) week, I promise you.
"I'm not going to be worried about guys' legs or what they feel like. They need to start worrying about how I feel."
Quarterback Chris Turner is all for a different approach before Saturday's game against Rutgers.
"We need to change something," Turner said. "I don't know what it's going to be, but we have to change something."
■ Clemson and Boston College had unexpected rest last week because of day-long bad weather.
Both teams headed to the locker rooms with 5:02 left in the third quarter after lightning was spotted near Memorial Stadium. Play was held up for 55 minutes. Then, with 13:56 left in the game, the lightning returned. The game was interrupted for another 48 minutes.
"I have never seen anything like that," Coach Frank Spaziani of Boston College said. "It was like four halftimes."
When the teams returned after the second delay, the stands were nearly empty.
"I've never been a part of anything like that in college football -- ever," Coach Dabo Swinney of Clemson said.
■ Virginia has enough problems as the ACC's only winless team, and it picked up two more last week when it lost Dominique Wallace and Matt Leemhuis to season-ending injuries.
Wallace, a freshman running back, suffered a serious foot sprain in last week's loss at Southern Mississippi. Leemhuis, a safety, broke his clavicle. Neither will play again this season.
Wallace carried 11 times for 35 yards at Southern Miss and helped Virginia (0-3) to an early lead that it couldn't protect.
"He has been rather impressive," Coach Al Groh of Virginia said. "We like what he can bring to the offense."
■ Tailback C.J. Spiller of Clemson says he'll play Saturday against No. 15 Texas Christian despite a toe injury.
Spiller did not return after the second of two rain delays in last week's 25-7 victory over Boston College. He first had the problem in a season-opening win over Middle Tennessee, leaving that game early in the second quarter
Spiller wouldn't say yesterday which foot the injured toe was on, according to The Associated Press. However, he says the injury felt better than it had and he expects to go full speed at practice.
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