NC State will go into its showdown game with Wake Forest as a modest underdog. Oddsmakers don’t see much difference between these two teams, but the Deacs do have the home field advantage, which is good enough to make them two-point favorites.
The over/under is currently at 66.5 after opening five points higher—someone in Vegas must have realized that NC State’s defense is not UNC’s defense.
Wake Forest is coming off a rather brutal 58-55 loss to the Tar Heels in which the Demon Deacons surrendered 24 fourth-quarter points in blowing a three-score lead. Wake’s defense all season has been an, um, adventure, to put it mildly.