Monday, October 06, 2003

What will Wake Forest bring to the table

So what kind of team is Wake Forest? Here are some unverified statistics showing they are definitely a running team first. Wake has beat Boston College 32-28 at BC, beat NC ST 38-24, lost to Purdue 16-10, beat E.Carolina 34-16, and lost to Virginia 27-24 at UVA. They have not been blown out yet and seem to have been in every game so far. They had an open weekend last weekend. WF is 2nd to last in total offense (only Tech is worse), and also 2nd to last in total defense (UNC worst). Rushing offense WF is 4th in the conference at 157 yards per game. Tech is now #1 in the ACC in rushing defense at 86.2 yards/game. WF is last in the conference in passing. One interesting stat - WF leads the conference in turnover margin at +8. With our inability to hold onto the ball this could be a problem for Tech. We fumbled 6 TIMES during the NC St. game. We were lucky to have recovered 5 of those. WF has also been the least penalized team in the ACC. WF has sophomore Cory Randolph at quarterback. He has not had stats much better than Reggie Ball's (58.3% completion %, 163 yards per game, 4 TD's, 5 Int's). Lastly, Wake is last in the conference with time-of-possesion. What do all these stat's mean? No a dang thing probably. If Wake comes in trying to run the ball heavily, it will be another great test for our rushing defense which is one of the best in the nation.