Rent paid again, Clemson captures sixth straight at Williams-Brice Stadium with 28-14 win over USC (VIDEO/AUDIO)

**Ricardo Jones grabbed the deflection off of Nyck Harbor and scored to seal the Clemson win (Ryan Bethea)**

WILLIAMS-BRICE STADIUM: Road, sweet road, again for the Clemson football team in Columbia on Saturday. Ricardo Jones’ pick six off of LaNorris Sellers with 3:20 left killed off the last hopes for South Carolina, and the Tigers won the Palmetto Bowl 28-14 for their sixth straight win on the Gamecocks’ home turf. The Gamecocks have not beaten the Tigers at Williams-Brice Stadium since 2013.

Clemson led 17-14 at the half, and the Tiger defense pitched a second half shutout. For that matter, neither offense scored a touchdown in the second half.

Nolan Hauser booted a 42-yard field goal midway through the third quarter to make it 20-14 in favor of Clemson. It stayed that way until the Gamecocks took possession at their own five following a Jack Smith punt. On the first play of the possession, Sellers fired a pass over the middle that bounced off of Nyck Harbor and was plucked out of the air by Jones who returned it 12 yards for the clinching score.

After a scoreless first quarter, the offenses got going in the second quarter as they alternated touchdowns, Clemson by grinding and USC by striking quickly.

Adam Randall scored on a ten yard run to cap a 78 yard drive for a 7-0 Clemson lead. The Gamecocks responded in three plays, the third one a 75-yard pass from Sellers to Nyck Harbor.

Clemson responded with an 11-play, 85-yard drive with Cade Klubnik running in from the three for the score. The Gamecocks came right back on the next play, a 75 yard pass from Sellers to Vandrevius Jacobs in which he went high for the pass and came down behind three Clemson defenders. He took off for the end zone and went in untouched.

Again, Clemson responded with a 12 play, 56 yard drive that led to a Nolan Hauser 32 yard field goal to make it a 17-14 Tiger lead at the half.

Clemson missed a chance at another first half touchdown when Klubnik was intercepted in the end zone by Jalon Kilgore following the recovery of a USC fumble at the Gamecocks 45.

The Tigers ran 47 plays to 19 for the Gamecocks in the first half, and held the ball for over 21 minutes.

After USC punted on its first possession of the second half, the Tigers put together another long drive of 12 plays and 56 yards that led to a Hauser field goal of 42 yards for a 20-14 lead. A roughing the punter penalty on USC kept that drive alive.

Late in the quarter, Rahsul Faison broke off a 16 yard run, the longest of the game for the Gamecocks, as they moved to the Clemson 23. After back to back incompletions, Sellers was intercepted in the corner of the end zone by Jones to end that drive.

The Gamecocks reached the Clemson 34 midway through the fourth quarter. Facing a 4th and three, Sellers tried to hit his tight end Jordan Dingle over the middle, but Wade Woodaz broke up the pass.

That would be the last scoring hope for the Gamecocks as Jones put the nail in the coffin with his second interception of Sellers with 3:20 to play in the game.

With the win, Clemson takes a 74-44-4 lead in the all-time series. The Tigers have won four in a row and are 7-5. They will learn their bowl assignment a week from Sunday with either the Sun Bowl in El Paso or the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa the likely location.

South Carolina finished the season with a 4-8 record, and with six straight losses to Power Four teams.