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Inside the weird, heated, one-sided Clemson-NC State rivalry

For a long time, Dave Doeren kept a screenshot on his phone from his first NC State-Clemson game, a raucous Thursday night six years ago.

Nobody gave NC State much of a chance that night against the No. 3 Tigers, who went in as 13-point favorites. Yet midway through the third quarter, the Wolfpack were very much in it, scrappy underdogs ready to pull off the upset only three games into Doeren's head-coaching tenure at NC State.

Then the game-changing play happened.