If there was any suspense to this game, even the mildest sense of uncertainty for NC State, it came off the bat when Bam Knight fumbled the ball away at midfield on the first drive of the night. But Furman could only turn that into a field goal try that it missed, and from there, the rout was on.
NC State controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides and so the matter was handled with predictable swiftness—it would have taken a whole lot more substantive screwups beyond that first turnover for State to make any sort of mess.