{"id":29775,"date":"2025-11-02T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/29775\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:38:07","slug":"things-look-right-in-tallahassee-again-as-fsu-has-double-digit-lead-over-wake-at-the-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/29775\/","title":{"rendered":"Things look right in Tallahassee again as FSU has double-digit lead over Wake at the half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">After 30 minutes, FSU has a 14-0 lead over Wake Forest on homecoming night in a game where it feels like both teams are being a little too careful. The Seminoles shut out an FBS team at the half for the first time since the 2023 ACC Championship Game against Louisville (led 3-0 at the half) and the Demon Deacons are trailing for the first time at the half this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">\u200bWake Forest is a pretty conservative team and that has played itself out in the first half. The Demon Deacons don&#8217;t have.an aggressive offense and, through the first half, seemed content to keep things close and play the field position gane.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">The Seminoles, however, are an aggressive team on offense, and it&#8217;s been the few big plays that led to points. A 65-yard pass reception by led to a six-yard touchdown run by Tommy Castellanos for the game&#8217;s first touchdown.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Duce Robinson 65 yd catch \ud83d\udc4b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SX4gG695VA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SX4gG695VA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seminole Sports Network (@SeminolesSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeminolesSN\/status\/1984777093343846853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">FSU struck again late in the first half with a 10-yard touchdown run by Sam Singleton. The sophomore running back was a big part of the drive with a 27-yard run and Castellanos did his thing in the pass game by converting a 3rd-and-13 with a 30-yard pass from Castellanos to Randy Pittman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singleton gets the starting nod<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">FSU made a big change to start the game, going with Singleton getting the first snaps over running back instead Gavin Sawchuk or Ousmane Kromah.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Kromah was the first back off the bench in the rotation and Sawchuk got some carries late in the first half. So far, Singleton has rewarded the coaching staff&#8217;s faith in him with 44 yards and a touchdown on eight carries in the first half.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sam Singleton starting???? What???<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Fink (@clay_fink) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clay_fink\/status\/1984769092486664669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 1, 2025<\/a>\u200bDefense shines with a little help<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">The Seminoles defense has a shutout thanks in part to\u00a0some uncharacteristic mistakes from Wake Forest. On the Demon Deacons&#8217; second drive, running back Demond Claiborne had a 25-yard run called back on a hold and on the next Wake drive, Claiborne had a 53-yard run called back because of a hold. The Demon Deacons also had three fumbles. They recovered all three, but two of them ended drives.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">Defensively, FSU has been helped by Wake&#8217;s mistakes, but the Seminoles have also limited their own mistakes. There were no silly penalties in the first half, and it&#8217;s clear that a focus of preparation has been to play with control and not give the Demon Deacons anything they didn&#8217;t earn.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 30 minutes, FSU has a 14-0 lead over Wake Forest on homecoming night in a game where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-29775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}