Sports Quick Hits: October 4th, 2021

🏀WNBA: In yesterday’s Game 3 of the semifinals , the Chicago Sky and the Phoenix Mercury — aka the lower ranked team in each series — strengthened their series’ leads to 2-1 over the No. 1 Connecticut Sun and No. 2 Las Vegas Aces, respectively. Bring on Game 4, set for 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday night.

🎓🏈College Football: Clemson, where you at? After a solid weekend from the nation’s best teams — No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Georgia — the once-great Clemson has fallen out of the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2014, after an ugly 19–13 win over Boston College on Saturday. Cripes.