RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — CJ Bailey threw for four first-half touchdowns and N.C. State got back on track by blowing out Campbell 56-10 on Saturday.
Hollywood Smothers rushed for 123 yards with a touchdown on
four carries and also made a TD reception as the Wolfpack (4-2) snapped a two-game skid and improved to 3-0 in nonconference home games.
N.C. State’s 482 first-half yards of total offense marked the most for a Football Bowl Championship team this season. The Wolfpack led 49-7 at the half.
Bailey finished 20-for-23 for 337 yards in 2½ quarters of action, with scoring throws to Cody Hardy, Terrell Anderson, Justin Jolly and Smothers giving the sophomore a single-game career-high for TD passes. Jayden Scott, who finished with 89 yards on the ground, ran for two touchdowns and Will Wilson scored the game’s first points on a 2-yard run.
Campbell (1-5) pulled even at 7-7 in the first quarter on Mike Chandler II’s 13-yard pass from Kamden Sixkiller on a possession that began at the N.C. State 14-yard line following a fumbled punt return. Ravel Cato’s fourth-quarter interception of a Wilson pass set up Alex Crabb’s 46-yard field goal.
Sixkiller went 12-for-22 for 87 yards.
Campbell: The Camels dropped to 0-3 all-time vs. Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, with all those games in a seven-season span. They lost to another FBS in-state foe last month at East Carolina.
N.C. State: The Wolfpack’s first five games had final margins of 12 points or less, so this was a reprieve from late-game tension. The team will play only one more home game until late November. Three of N.C. State’s victories have come against in-state opponents.
Campbell: Plays next Saturday at Hampton in a Coastal Athletic Association game
N.C. State: Play next Saturday at No. 21 Notre Dame
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