Wake Forest Outlasts Louisville 30-27 on a Late Field Goal
Five field goals, and the last one counted. Connor Calvert's 32-yarder with 6:20 left put Wake Forest up 30-27, and nobody scored again. That ended a game that had been tied twice and had changed hands four times.
Wake Forest kicked a 39-yard field goal first, Louisville answered with a Lincoln Kienholz run, and the teams traded the lead from there. Ty Clark III ran in from six yards to make it 10-7, Kienholz scored again for 14-10, and then Carlos Hernandez caught a 77-yard pass from Gio Lopez to put Wake back on top. Clark added a second six-yard score for 24-14. Louisville needed 22 seconds to answer, Kienholz hitting Jaleel Skinner from 61 yards, so it was 24-21 at the half. Carson Hilbert tied it at 24 with a field goal, Calvert put Wake back in front, and Hilbert tied it again from 54 yards with 42 seconds left in the third. It was 27-27 going into the fourth. Then Calvert did his thing.
The stat story splits cleanly. Wake Forest ran it 41 times for 178 yards and sacked Louisville four times. Louisville threw for 324 yards and ran for 75, and Kienholz was the whole show, 27 of 36 with two rushing touchdowns, though he also threw an interception. Wake Forest lost a fumble and never threw one to the other side. Total yards were 403 to 399, which is about as close as the scoreboard.
Wake Forest goes to 3-1. Louisville drops to 2-2 and can point at the three-point margin all it wants.
For fantasy purposes, this one belonged to Hernandez (34.4 points on 194 yards), with Kienholz right behind him despite finishing with minus 19 rushing yards on 13 carries. Yes, minus 19 and 29.1 points. Two touchdowns will do that.