Wake Forest is looking for vengeance after a tough loss last year. Here’s what they bring to the table. 

OFFENSE 

Scheme

Aside from personnel, it doesn’t look like much has changed with Wake. They still try to knee-cap opponents with tempo, and then they’ll bring everything to a halt with the slowest mesh in football. The tempo catches teams (like UVA) out of alignment, and the slow mesh is like a shotgun wedding in that it’s designed to force defenses into committing to the run or the pass, and to defend or abandon certain gaps:

Watch UVA’s end-man as he gets impatient and abandons contain, letting Christian Beal-Smith (#26) hit the corner for a big chunk of yardage. One thing about the slow mesh is that outside rushers can turn the corner and occasionally get TFLs, but most of the time stopping their run means everyone pickets the gaps they’re supposed to.

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