BOSTON -- By Tuesday, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney could tell his team needed a break. That victory against Louisville was dramatic and draining, and a long trip on short rest was looming.Swinney eased up a bit on the third-ranked Tigers and they responded with a sharp performance when they easily could have come out flat, beating Boston College 56-10 on Friday night.It was a taxing week, but our guys didnt complain, Swinney said. They just went through the grind. I love that mentality of that team.Deshaun Watson threw for 266 yards and four touchdowns, and the Heisman Trophy hopeful even helped clear the way for Wayne Gallmans 59-yard scoring run with a solid block.Clemson (6-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) extended its conference winning streak to 12 games and its road winning streak to eight, which matches a school record set from 1978-79.Ive been doing this a long time. Theres a reason that records only eight. Its really hard to do, Swinney said, doing his postgame news conference with the big bronze ORourke-McFadden Trophy that goes to the winner of this rivalry sitting on the table next to him.Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said he planned to spend his rare Saturday off back home in Anderson, South Carolina, chowing down on some food from J.C.s sandwich shop, riding his fathers new dune buggy and watching college football.Im super pumped, he said.The Tigers definitely earned their break.Boston College (3-3, 0-3) lost its 11th consecutive ACC game.Clemson broke three plays of at least 50 yards in the first quarter, two for touchdowns and another that set up a score. Watson picked off a defender on the edge to help spring Gallman for the games first touchdown. Watsons 59-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Leggett made it 21-0 late in the first half. That was all the Tigers needed.Those three plays were costly right there, Boston College coach Steve Addazio said. The last thing I wanted to see us do is give up some big plays.TAKEAWAYClemson: Hard to expect an A-plus effort from the Tigers considering the circumstances, but there was nothing to complain about. Swinney said the team hit a wall in the middle of the week so he cut back on practice and had the coaches and players catch up on rest. There was no looking past BC and a trip to the place where Swinney earned his first win as Clemson coach back in 2008.We dont look forward to the next game or (back at) game past, Watson said.There were plenty of Clemson fans in the sellout crowd of 44,500, but not much intensity in Alumni Stadium. Still, the Tigers took care of business and came out of the game relatively healthy.Boston College: The Eagles just cant match-up against this level of opposition. The Eagles have lost their last two ACC games by a combined score 105-10 to Virginia Tech and Clemson.BCs best first-half drive covered 80 yards and got inside the Clemson 1. Twice on fourth-and-goal, quarterback Patrick Towles fumbled the snap because center Jim Cashman, who was playing in place of the injured Jon Baker (ankle), was knocked into the backfield by Tigers tackle Scott Pagano. The first one was wiped out by an offside penalty by Clemson, so Pagano did it again.Baker is Boston Colleges best lineman.One of my fears was losing that guy and that happened, Addazio said.POLL IMPLICATIONSBeating one of the worst teams in the conference isnt going to push Clemson up the polls, but the Tigers did nothing to lose support In the AP Top 25 , which comes out Monday instead of Sunday because of the postponed Georgia-South Carolina game.HOMECOMINGClemson star defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, from Springfield, Massachusetts, had four tackles, two for loss, including a sack, in his first college game in his home state.UP NEXTClemson: The Tigers return home to face North Carolina State on Oct. 15.Boston College: If the Eagles are going to break the ACC losing streak, the next game could be their best opportunity. Boston College hosts Syracuse on Oct. 22 in a matchup of one team that cant play offense (BC) and another that cant play defense (Syracuse).---Follow Ralph D. 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Nottinghamshire 129 for 2 (Libby 51*, Lumb 68*) trail Durham 244 (Gurney 6-61) by 115 runsScorecard The first six-wicket haul of Harry Gurneys first-class career lifted struggling Nottinghamshires woes in their Specsavers County Championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street.The left-arm seamer finished with six for 61 as Durham lost nine wickets in the afternoon session to be all out for 244.Durham quickly reduced Nottinghamshire to 16 for two, but Michael Lumb survived a streaky start to take them to 129 for 2 in partnership with Jake Libby.On a pitch which appeared to encourage attacking cricket, Durham chose to bat and raced to 77 without loss after 14 overs. At that point 33 had come off the previous three, with Keaton Jennings taking 15 off Gurneys second over, including a six carved over backward point.Mark Stoneman drove Imran Tahir for six over long-on, but with both batsmen on 33 the fun ended when Jennings was lbw on the front foot to a ball from Gurney which swung from outside leg stump.Tahir, on for the 12th over, conceded 37 in eight as Stoneman progressed to 49 and Durham were 115 for 1 at lunch.The rot set in from the second ball on the resumption as Scott Borthwick chased a wide one from Gurney and was caught behind. Stoneman departed with extreme reluctance in the next over, when he tried to clip a Steve Mullaney swinger to leg and was adjudged to have tickled it to Read, who was standing up to the medium pacer.Four wickets had gone down for six runs when two more fell on 121. Jack Burnham pushed forward and edged Gurney behind then Michael Richardson was lbw third ball after surviving a close call off the first.ddddddddddddDurhams plight took a fresh twist when Paul Collingwood was struck amidships by Gurney and went down as though poleaxed. He retired on seven but returned with a runner when two more wickets had fallen and remained unbeaten on 33, the final 12 runs of the innings coming from his two driven sixes off Samit Patel.The left-arm spinner had two for none after two overs as Ireland duo Stuart Poynter and Barry McCarthy surrendered. Poynter played well for 42, only to shoulder arms to one which went straight on, then McCarthy swung across the line and was also bowled.With Jennings in charge of Durham as Collingwood stayed off the field, Nottinghamshires reply got off to a rocky start when Graham Onions got one to lift sharply off a length to have Mullaney caught behind.Tom Moores edged Chris Rushworth to second slip and Lumb survived two edges in the same over. One just evaded gully, the other dropped fractionally short of third slips right hand.On six he looked fortunate not to be lbw to a ball from Onions which struck him on the back leg. But he continued the days stroke-playing theme as a combination of edges and middled shots took him to 50 off 61 balls.He was on 68 at the close with Libby having made a more composed 51, completing an 86-ball half-century by clipping the penultimate delivery through square leg off Rushworth for his third four. ' ' '