Coaches like to talk about playing the "full 60 minutes" of football, but sometimes you only need 15 minutes of fantastic football. NC State scored four touchdowns in the first quarter--all of them big plays--which was enough to give the Wolfpack a 35-17 win in Winston-Salem on Saturday afternoon.
NC State struck first thanks to a tremendous individual effort by Jacoby Brissett, who eluded a sack to find Maurice Trowell for a 59-yard score less than a minute into the game. A couple minutes later, Matt Dayes broke a tackle to spring himself for an 85-yard score, and the big-play-a-thon was on.