Wake Forest Scores 31 Straight to Rout NC State
NC State led 14-7 in the second quarter. Wake Forest then scored 31 points in a row, and the Wolfpack scored none of the rest. The final was 38-14.
Wake Forest scored first, a 1-yard Gio Lopez pass to Matthew Lusardi, and NC State tied it on a 24-yard CJ Bailey pass to Chance Robinson. A 2-yard touchdown pass from Will Wilson to Hunter Provience put the home team up 14-7 with 9:42 left in the half. A 23-yard Connor Calvert field goal as the half expired made it 14-10, and that was the last bit of NC State's day.
The third quarter was Wake Forest's. Lopez threw a 6-yard touchdown to Carlos Hernandez to take a 17-14 lead, a 10-yarder to Jack Foley, and then ran in a yard himself for 31-14 with 2:27 left in the quarter. Deuce Lawrence's 17-yard run with 11:24 left in the fourth made it 38-14, and nobody scored after that.
The box score for NC State is rough. Bailey completed 28 of 39 for 241 yards and a touchdown, but the Wolfpack rushed 24 times for 15 yards and finished with 258 total yards to Wake Forest's 392. Bailey also lost a fumble. Wake Forest turned it over zero times and had three sacks to NC State's one.
Wake Forest improves to 5-1 and NC State falls to 3-3. Lopez led all scorers with 37.1 Promethium points and Hernandez had 12 catches for 117 yards, so fantasy owners got their money's worth from the visitors.