FSU football: Chances of upsetting Wake Forest on the road?
By Kelvin Hunt
FSU football will travel to Wake Forest with an upset in mind.
FSU football got a win over the Duke Blue Devils last week in their final home game.
They’ll close out their regular season schedule with a road trip to Winston-Salem to take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, who were not on the original modified schedule.
Wake Forest is (4-4) and coming off back-to-back losses against North Carolina and Louisville.
However, they’ll enter the game against the Noles as near touchdown (-6.5) betting favorites, according to the Action Network.
The under/over total for the game is 66, so oddsmakers expect a 36-30 game. I mentioned how different the FSU offense is with a healthy Jordan Travis at quarterback, and that was true against Duke last week.
The Noles scored 28 points in the first quarter and 56 points for the game, with Travis sitting out most of the fourth quarter.
They’ll have another opportunity to put up a lot of points against Wake Forest, who comes into the game allowing 31.6 points per game.
The challenge for the Noles, as it’s been all year, is the FSU defense getting stops. Will they be able to do that against Wake Forest?
It’ll be a tall order as Wake Forest runs plays at a blistering pace, which makes lining up on defense properly hard. They also run a lot of RPO mesh point concepts, which will give FSU’s linebackers all types of issues.
Wake Forest hardly ever turns the ball over, and they convert third downs at a 40 percent clip. They are terrific in the red zone, scoring touchdowns 71 percent of the time.
We did see the FSU defense play better against Duke, aside from the 21 point barrage in the second quarter. However, Wake Forest is much better than Duke offensively and will look to dink and dunk their way down the field as they only average 5.77 yards per play.
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see a high scoring game with the team that turns it over the least winning. That would favor Wake Forest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if FSU pulled off the upset. For what it’s worth, FSU football is 2-0 against North Carolina teams in 2020!