No. 4 Clemson dropped its marquee season-opener to No. 9 LSU in a 17-10 defeat that was tight from start to finish, and as if the narrow loss in a showdown with early College Football Playoff implications was not disappointing enough, a couple of mishaps at Memorial Stadium put salt in the wound. Not only did LSU hand Dabo Swinney's program an early setback on the field, but its equipment truck dealt some accidental damage to the facility on its way out. A small fire erupted on the Memorial Stadium video board during the game, too.

As it exited from a loading dock at the stadium, the LSU equipment truck ran into a garage door, bending the metal out of shape and denting the truck. The gate was suspended between the tractor and the trailer, bowed from the collision.

As if that wasn

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