One of the more surprising early season teams has been Wake Forest, who enters Saturday’s game at NC State at 4-0 on the season and fresh off a road win at Indiana last week. The Wolfpack of NC State enter Saturday’s game with a 2-1 mark on the young season and are actually off a bye this week. This Demon Deacons team, while not yet ready to compete for a conference title, appear to be much improved this season, especially offensively which has been their problem over the last few seasons. Wake also went on the road three weeks ago and won 24-14 at Duke, so they have played some solid competition early in the year. NC State lost a squeaker at East Carolina in week two but have really not played the same level of competition as Wake. The Deacons defense is surrendering just 16.5 PPG and is especially stout vs. the run, giving up only 88 rushing YPG. The Wake Forest defense continues to do a great job pressuring the QB and forcing their opponents into mistakes, as evidenced by the defense coming up with six interceptions and 12 team sacks. We believe the reason for the double-digit line is the history in this series, which has been dominated by NC State. In what appears to be an attractive trend here this week, Wake Forest is a perfect 4-0 ATS in their last four road games vs. teams with a winning record, while NC State is 0-4 in the same spot against quality foes at home. Another great trend here backing Wake here is that the road dog has been a really solid play in this series, covering 67% of the time. There is a lot of value here backing the road puppy, so the Sharps say…
3 Units – Wake Forest (+11)