Wake Forest Runs Away From California 41-7
Dominick Barry had two catches all season before this game. Against California he caught four, and three of them were touchdowns. The Demon Deacons won 41-7 and it was never close.
Wake Forest scored first and kept going, Gio Lopez hitting Barry from 39 yards out with 8:20 left in the first quarter and Jack Foley from 29 yards with 6:15 left. Jamar Searcy got in from a yard out early in the second quarter, Ty Clark III ran 31 yards for another score (the two-point try failed, which is why it was 27 and not 28), and Barry caught a 30-yarder with 9 seconds left in the half. That made it 34-0 at the break. Barry added a 2-yard score late in the third quarter and it was 41-0. California got on the board only after that, when Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele hit Mason Mini from 28 yards out with 8:29 to go.
The yardage was as lopsided as the score. Wake Forest piled up 509 yards, 289 passing and 220 rushing, against 266 for California, which ran for just 75. Neither team turned the ball over, so there is no fluke to point at. The Golden Bears were simply outplayed from the start, and the Deacons led from the first touchdown to the last. California's 75 rushing yards tell you how that went.
Wake Forest goes to 6-1 and California falls to 3-4. For fantasy, Lopez threw for 267 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 51 more, a very ordinary day for him at 39.8 points.