SWC75
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Why Wake Forest will win
- A team coming off a bad year due to a lousy offense that blew out an FCS opponent that won only one game last year but had a strong recruiting class last year and played 10 true freshmen in the opener, rather than redshirt them. The team is pretty good defensively but has some question marks on the offensive line. Sound familiar? This is Syracuse vs. Syracuse and Wake vs. Wake in a battle to see who won’t be the worst team in the conference this year. We have an advantage: we are at home. But they have a bigger one: They have their quarterback and we lost ours. John Wolford is what Eric Dungey will be a year from now. That will be the difference. We’re all excited because Dungey completed 10 of 17 for 114 yards and 2 scores with no interceptions and ran for 30 yards. Wolford was 20 for 27 for 323 yards and 3 scores with no picks. He also ran 70 yards for a touchdown on one play.
- I don’t know why coaches under-estimate the value of a pass-catching tight end. Dave Clawson doesn’t. Their top target is 6-3 245 Cam Serigne, who had 54 catches for 5 scores last year. Other teams have killed us with passes over the middle for years and this team will, too.
- Wake has a small but quick defense that will speed up the game for Mr. Dungey. They run a 4-2-5 scheme that will have a lot of guys running around back there. Yet their front four can pressure the QB while he’s looking at it. They run a lot of flexes and stunt just to confuse matters more. Have fun, Eric!
- Yeah, we ran for 326 yards because of some explosive plays but we also had 21 running plays than gained 2 yards or less, (not counting the victory play at the end), and too many plays where somebody leaked into the backfield, (including the one where Hunt got hurt). That was pretty disappointing with four seniors and a junior up front. If Rhody can do that to us, Wake can do that and more.
- We have the #1 defense in the country because Rhode Island has the worst offense in FCS, not the other way around. Our secondary was totally untested and now we’re going up against a team that passed for 388 yards last week. We just don’t know what we’ve got back there. We might not want to know but are about to rind out.
- In a close game, the kicking game could decide. I like our Riley Dixon and Cole Murphy but Wake’s Alex Kinal and Mike Weaver are at least as good.
- A team coming off a bad year due to a lousy offense that blew out an FCS opponent that won only one game last year but had a strong recruiting class last year and played 10 true freshmen in the opener, rather than redshirt them. The team is pretty good defensively but has some question marks on the offensive line. Sound familiar? This is Syracuse vs. Syracuse and Wake vs. Wake in a battle to see who won’t be the worst team in the conference this year. We have an advantage: we are at home. But they have a bigger one: They have their quarterback and we lost ours. John Wolford is what Eric Dungey will be a year from now. That will be the difference. We’re all excited because Dungey completed 10 of 17 for 114 yards and 2 scores with no interceptions and ran for 30 yards. Wolford was 20 for 27 for 323 yards and 3 scores with no picks. He also ran 70 yards for a touchdown on one play.
- I don’t know why coaches under-estimate the value of a pass-catching tight end. Dave Clawson doesn’t. Their top target is 6-3 245 Cam Serigne, who had 54 catches for 5 scores last year. Other teams have killed us with passes over the middle for years and this team will, too.
- Wake has a small but quick defense that will speed up the game for Mr. Dungey. They run a 4-2-5 scheme that will have a lot of guys running around back there. Yet their front four can pressure the QB while he’s looking at it. They run a lot of flexes and stunt just to confuse matters more. Have fun, Eric!
- Yeah, we ran for 326 yards because of some explosive plays but we also had 21 running plays than gained 2 yards or less, (not counting the victory play at the end), and too many plays where somebody leaked into the backfield, (including the one where Hunt got hurt). That was pretty disappointing with four seniors and a junior up front. If Rhody can do that to us, Wake can do that and more.
- We have the #1 defense in the country because Rhode Island has the worst offense in FCS, not the other way around. Our secondary was totally untested and now we’re going up against a team that passed for 388 yards last week. We just don’t know what we’ve got back there. We might not want to know but are about to rind out.
- In a close game, the kicking game could decide. I like our Riley Dixon and Cole Murphy but Wake’s Alex Kinal and Mike Weaver are at least as good.
