Wake Forest routs Virginia 51-7 behind a 24-point third

Player of the game

Carlos Hernandez 8 REC, 136 YDS, 1 TD

7.9

Wake Forest buried Virginia 51-7 at home and moved to 7-1. The game turned in the third quarter, when the Demon Deacons scored 24 points and turned a 20-0 halftime lead into a rout.

Wake Forest led from the first drive. Ty Clark III ran for a 2-yard score at 12:29 of the first, and C. Calvert added a 45-yard field goal for 10-0. Clark scored again from 4 yards in the second, and Calvert's 25-yarder made it 20-0 at the break.

The third quarter broke it open. Calvert hit from 44 yards, then Gio Lopez found Carlos Hernandez for a 10-yard touchdown. Clark ran in from 2 yards, and Jamar Searcy added a 7-yard score to make it 44-0. Virginia got on the board when Beau Pribula hit Da'Shawn Martin for 47 yards. K. McCaleb capped the scoring with a 27-yard run.

Hernandez was the player of the game with 8 catches for 136 yards and a touchdown. Chirp's Sim gave Wake Forest 71% before the game.

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