Wake takes big step toward taking division title by outlasting N.C. State
The off-target throws, drops and mistakes kept coming for No. 13 Wake Forest. So did the injuries — all on a night when the Demon Deacons were trying to take a huge step toward winning their Atlantic Coast Conference division.
All that trouble merely ended up as the perfect setup for another memorable moment in a special season.
Sam Hartman accounted for four touchdowns while Justice Ellison ran for a short score with 1:47 left to help Wake Forest beat No. 21 North Carolina State 45-42 Saturday night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, moving within a victory of wrapping up the league’s Atlantic Division race.
“It’s fun to play in games like this,” Clawson said. “It’s even more fun to win them.”
The next step for the Demon Deacons (9-1, 6-0 ACC) is to finish the division race and supplant Clemson, which had won the Atlantic on the way to winning the past six league championships. To do so,
Wake Forest must win one of its last two games.
The Demon Deacons had to grind to the final minute to hold off the Wolfpack (7-3, 4-2) and quarterback Devin Leary. The celebration lingered so long that the public-address announcer had to twice instruct Wake players to head to the locker room.
Florida State 31, Miami 28: Jordan Travis completed a fourth-and-14 pass to Andrew Parchment and two playslaterranfora1-yardtouchdown with 26 seconds to go for the Seminoles (4-6, 3-4 ACC) in Tallahassee. Travis completed 18 of 26 passes for a career-high 274 yards, and he ran 22 times for 62 yards and two touchdowns. Tyler Van Dyke threw four touchdownpassesasMiami(5-5,3-3) rallied from a 17-point deficit. Boston College 41, Georgia Tech 30: Phil Jurkovec accounted for five touchdowns — running for three and passing for two — and the Eagles (6-4, 2-4) won in Atlanta to become bowl-eligible. Despite Jahmyr Gibbs’ 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, Georgia Tech (3-7, 2-6) has lost four consecutive games.
Air Force 35, Colorado State 21: Haaziq Daniels threw for two touchdowns, including a 92-yarder for the longest pass in school history, in Fort Collins, Colorado, as Air Force (7-3, 4-2 Mountain West) achieved its fifth straight win.
Richmond 51, Delaware 27: Joe Mancuso threw for three touchdownsandranfortwomoreatRobins Stadium to lead the Spiders (5-5, 3-4 CAA), who will close the season at William & Mary. Mancuso was 13-of-21passingfor179yardsandkept the ball 14 times for 116 yards. Zach Gwynn threw for 331 yards and two touchdowns for the Blue Hens (5-5, 3-4), but he was intercepted twice. Furman 37, VMI 31: Jace Wilson threw a pair of long touchdown passes in the second half for Furman, which stopped VMI twice in the closing minutes in Greenville, South Carolina. The win snapped a string of three losses for Furman (5-5, 3-4 Southern Conference) and jeopardized the FCS playoff hopes of the Keydets (6-4, 4-3). VMI’s Seth Morgan was 33-of-56 passing for 415 yards, and Michael Jackson caught 13 passes for 177 yards.