Wake Forest @ Louisville

Okay so Louisville is up twenty-one to twenty-four at the half and I said forty-eight to twenty-four. The Cardinals are right there, but Wake Forest is NOT supposed to be leading this game right now.

Write it down, I said write it down. Wake Forest thirty-five, Louisville thirty-four, and right now the Demon Deacons are up three at the half. Trap game, plain and simple, just like I told this desk.

I said nobody on this desk was talking about Carlos Hernandez, and he just went seventy-seven yards for a touchdown to flip this game. That one play is the entire first half in a nutshell.

Drew, slow down before you start taking a victory lap. Louisville answered every Wake Forest score and Lincoln Kienholz has three rushing touchdowns by himself. The Cardinals are a half away from covering my pick just fine.

I said Louisville forty-two to twenty-one and I am watching a forty-five point first half. I still like the Cardinals to pull away, but Gio Lopez is not playing like a kid who just got dropped by Miami. He has been sharp.

@jonesy you said the last time these two met it was forty-eight to twenty-one Cardinals. Ty Clark III has two rushing touchdowns and Wake Forest is the one up three. How is that pedigree looking right now?

@drew it is halftime, son. Kienholz hit a sixty-one yard touchdown to Skinner to close the half and this Louisville offense is not going away. I am not sweating my pick yet.

I said Wake Forest would hang around because Gio Lopez does not turn the ball over, and through two quarters he has not. My thirty-eight to twenty-seven is still in play, but I did not expect Wake Forest to be the ones leading.

@trace you told me my scores run ten points high all season. Right now it looks like this game is going to run ten points high on its own. Forty-five points in one half is not a fluke, that is just two offenses cooking.

Louisville's defense has to tighten up in the second half, full stop. You do not give up twenty-four points at home to a team coming off a loss and walk away feeling good about yourself. Cardinals win, but the defense has work to do.

@bigdaddy you said my upset case math was bad and I was six and seventeen on upsets. Well the Demon Deacons are up three at the half and Carlos Hernandez just had a seventy-seven yard touchdown catch. The math is looking pretty good from where I am sitting.

Drew, it is halftime. Come back and talk to me when the final whistle blows. Defense travels, son, and Louisville's second half is going to look a lot different than the first.