TAMPA, Fla.—Sam Hartman completed 23 of 36 passes for 280 yards and three touchdowns in what was expected to be his final game with Wake Forest, a 27–17 win over Missouri in the Gasparilla Bowl on Friday night.
The redshirt junior now will look at entering the NFL draft or the transfer portal.
Hartman threw his 108th career touchdown pass to set an Atlantic Coast Conference record on a 5-yard strike to Taylor Morin that made it 7–0 in the first quarter. He had been tied with Clemson’s Tajh Boyd (2010–13), and ended up with 110 overall.
Sam Hartman (10) of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons throws a pass in the second quarter against the Missouri Tigers during the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Dec. 23, 2022 . (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)
Hartman came up 33 yards short of joining North Carolina State’s Philip Rivers (13,484 from 2000–03) as the only quarterbacks in ACC history to reach 13,000 passing yards….