Dec. 30, 2011

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Wake Forest Postgame Notes
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest 17
LP Field - Nashville, Tenn.
Dec. 30, 2011

With the Loss
• Wake Forest finishes the season 6-7 overall
• Wake Forest finishes the season with consecutive losses to SEC teams
• Wake Forest's string of consecutive bowl wins (2007, 2008) is snapped
• Wake Forest finishes with a sub .500 record for the third straight year
• Wake Forest's all-time bowl record stands at 6-4
• Wake Forest falls to 0-2 in bowl games against SEC teams (LSU, 1979, Tangerine)

Jim Grobe With The Loss
• Jim Grobe finishes his 11th season at Wake Forest with a 68-67 overall record.
• Grobe is 101-100-1 for his 17-year career.

Valuing The Football
• Wake Forest did not commit a turnover in the game and set a school-record for fewest turnovers in a season with 12 (8 INTs and 4 fumbles).
• The previous record of 13 was set in 2004.

Pendergrass On The Move
• Playing in his final collegiate game, senior running back Brandon Pendergrass finished with 73 yards on 24 carries.
• He scored his 17th career rushing touchdown and his 18th overall on a 14-yard scamper in the first quarter.
• The Deacs are now 10-6 when he reaches the endzone.

Keeping It On The "Lowe" Down
• Sophomore Duran Lowe recorded his first career interception at the end of the first half.
• He intercepted Chris Relf in the endzone with two seconds remaining in the half to end the MSU scoring threat.

Tommy Bo With A TD Plunge
• Junior fullback Tommy Bohanon recorded his second-career touchdown run on the opening drive of the second half.
• Bohanon plunged in from one-yard out.
• That was his second rushing touchdown of the season and the fourth TD of his career.

Campanaro With A Career Night
• Sophomore wide receiver Michael Campanaro recorded a career-high 10 receptions for a career-high 128 yards.
• His previous career-highs were nine catches for 93 yards.
• Campanaro finished the season with 833 receiving yards which was tied for 10th in school-history.

First Career Pitch And Catch
• Sophomore punter Alex Wulfeck completed his first career pass to senior defensive back Josh Bush on a fake punt in the second quarter.
• That was also the first career reception for Bush.
• The play went for one yard and was converted for a first down.

Tanner Price Continues To Set Records
• Sophomore quarterback Tanner Price just about every true-freshman passing record last season and he continued that trend this season.
• With 214 yards on 24 of 46 passing tonight, Price now has 4,366 yards in his career which is a post-sophomore year record. He broke Riley Skinner's old mark of 4,255 yards.
• He did throw an interception in the game which extended his streak to 173 pass attempts without an interception. That breaks the previous school-record of 143 which James MacPherson set in 2002.
• Price finished the season with 3,017 passing yards and 20 touchdown passes.

Givens Caps Record-Setting Season
• Junior Chris Givens had one of the best seasons in school history for a wide receiver.
• He finished the season with a school-record 1,330 receiving yards on 83 receptions. Givens also had nine touchdown receptions.
• For his career, Givens has 163 receptions which is fourth all-time in school history. He has a total of 2,473 career receptions yards which is third all-time and his 21 career TD receptions is tied for third all-time.
• He had seven 100-yard receiving games this season which is one shy of the school-record.
• Givens has now caught at least one pass in each of the last 28 games he has played in.

What a Combo
• Wake Forest receivers Chris Givens and Michael Campanaro teamed to be the most productive receiving tandem in school history this season. The duo set a single-season record for combined receptions with 156. Givens finished with 83 grabs while Campanaro had 73.
• They also became only the second Wake tandem to each hit 800 receiving yards in the same season. Givens finished with a school-record 1,330 yards and Campanaro notched 833 yards.
• They join Desmond Clark (866) and Jammie Deese (826) who each had over 800 yards receiving in 1998.

Noel With Second Pick
• Redshirt freshman cornerback Merrill Noel intercepted his second pass of the season on Mississippi State's first drive of the second half.
• Noel now has 21 passes defended on the season, including 19 pass breakups.

Wulfeck Getting A Workout
• Sophomore punter Alex Wulfeck recorded a career-high eight punts on the night for a career-high 322 yards.
• He averaged 40.3 yards per punt with a long of 49.

Cyhl Quarles
• Senior Cyhl Quarles had five tackles on the night giving him a team-high 101 for the season.
• He is the first Deacon with 100 or more tackles in a season since Aaron Curry had 105 in 2008.

Miscellaneous
• Wake won the toss and elected to defer to the second half.
• That was the first time all season that Wake Forest did not receive the ball first.
• Wake scored first in 10 of 13 games this season.
• Junior place kicker Jimmy Newman tied his season-long with a 46-yard field goal in the fourth quarter. He also kicked a 46-yard field goal against Notre Dame on Nov. 5.
• The Demon Deacons are now 29-33 (62 games) in games decided by seven points or less under head coach Jim Grobe.
• Mississippi State running back Vick Ballard's 72-yard TD run in the fourth quarter was the longest run Wake Forest has allowed an opponent in a bowl game. Ballard also had a 60-yard TD run in the first quarter, which was the previous longest run by an opponent.