The Wake Forest football team captured its third road victory of the season on Saturday afternoon, 70-56, behind a career passing performance from redshirt sophomore quarterback Sam Hartman.

It marked the third-highest scoring game in Demon Deacons (7-0, 4-0 ACC) history and is the highest in a road performance.

Hartman had a career day through the air against the Black Knights (4-3) finishing with a career-high 458 yards on 23-of-29 passing. It is the sixth-most passing yards in Wake Forest history and ranks second in the Dave Clawson era, trailing just John Wolford's 461-yard performance against Louisville in 2017.

Additionally, his five passing touchdowns ties the program record and is a career high for Hartman. Riley Skinner (2009), John Wolford (2017) and Jamie Newman (2019) are the only other Demon Deacon quarterbacks to find the endzone five times through the air.

On defense, redshirt senior defensive back Traveon Redd intercepted a third quarter pass, returning it 83 yards for a touchdown to put the Demon Deacons up by two scores. It marked the longest interception return since 2007 and is the seventh longest interception return in program history.

From that point, the Deacs led the rest of the way, scoring on the remainder of their offensive possession until the final one when Wake Forest took a knee to end the game.

Additionally this marks just the second time in program history that Wake Forest did not attempt a punt. The only other came in the Deacs' 66-14 victory over Campbell on Oct. 2, 2020.

In total, the Demon Deacons 63 points on offense came in just 17:17 minutes, the Deacs lowest time of possession this season.

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The Demon Deacons return home to Truist Field for the first time since Oct. 2. Wake Forest is scheduled for its first of three consecutive Big 4 matchups against Duke on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. on ACC Network.

It will also be Homecoming in Deactown as Wake Forest welcomes back its alumni to Winston-Salem.