Everything’s a process, and NC State did not have a great first quarter—it was a bit where they could have been pressing, but also if they had just executed a couple plays, then they’d have hit some big ones. This amounts to haggling if you’re Charleston Southern, which had to endure the rest of the game.
So you can read into this one whatever you want but the outcome was never in question, and by the time Devin Leary hit Anthony Smith on a ridiculous cross-body throw, well, the worries ended.
We didn’t have to worry a bit about this defense, which held Charleston Southern to a joke of a rushing effort, and put constant pressure on its quarterback.