I knew going into last weekend that I would either be covering UNC-Davidson in Charlotte (basketball) or Virginia Tech-Wake football. I wasn’t all that surprised when they sent me to Charlotte in lieu of the sadfest in Winston-Salem.
I watched nary a snap of the game. Not one. I followed it on Twitter, of course, and pulled up a StatBroadcast tab. The score and time remaining is how the tab is identified, so it was easy to check. As I was following the action in TWC Arena, whenever there was a dead ball or a TV timeout, I glanced at the tab.
Scoreless. Still scoreless.
Must be some mistake, I thought. It had been scoreless since well before the basketball game I was attending began, and it would remain that way well into the second half. But I kept checking back, hoping maybe their StatBroadcast feed wasn’t refreshing. Sometimes I even reloaded the page. Nope.
As it kept going that way, and the Twitter fascination with its ugliness grew, I got more and more spellbound by it. But then I saw the screenshot of a triumphant Frank Beamer, raising his arms, as the final score at the end of regulation was displayed beneath him: 0-0. That’s when I knew — I had missed covering the most #goacc football game ever.
It ended in a 6-3 Wake Forest win in overtime, but you probably already knew that. And honestly, that’s not really important.
This game wasn’t about who won or lost this game. It was about an EXPERIENCE. A #goacc experience.
For the uninitiated, #goacc is a state of mind. It’s self-deprecating. We in ACC country like to make the jokes that the rest of the nation wants to make about our revenue sports before you can make them, because then we’re laughing WITH you and you’re not laughing AT us and OH GOD IT HURTS SO MUCH BUT I LAUGH AND STILL I LAUGH.
It can apply to so many things. You know it when you see it. And I knew this game was the most #goacc. So I knew that I had to see it.
I Twitter-sourced it first, half-jokingly, because I had already made up my mind.
So should I watch Virginia Tech-Wake for artistic purposes RT for yes fav for no
— Lauren Brownlow
I said I would stop the voting once the total votes surpassed the total number of points scored in the game. That didn’t take long. There it sat at 9 retweets, 3 favorites. As you can see by the eventual tally, it ended up being closer. But 50 is a perfect number of votes, since it’s the combined number of first downs (32) and punts (18) by both teams. Symmetry.
After I got back to the grocery store, I queued it up on my laptop, keeping open a window to take notes. But I was ready for the full experience. I cracked my knuckles, and they made the awful sound they make every time now because I’ve used my hands too much.
“He kicks it hard and deep,” the announcer says on the opening kickoff (and I’ll be referring to both of them as “the announcer” because when I was taking frantic notes, I didn’t have time to differentiate).
I’m mostly going to use my notes. So deal with it.
4-yard gain on the first play OMG what
Wait on the second play it’s a pass for a first down what is happening
Then it’s 3 yards wow that’s a lot of yards
They give the keys to the game. Virginia Tech’s is “Don’t Beat Yourself”. The graphic flickers for a moment, disappears, then comes back, which feels perfect somehow. Wake’s? “Need chunk plays”. LOLK
Virginia Tech’s drive stalls. And that’s a theme in this game. In spite of all the awfulness on offense, both teams generated some rather promising drives that just never ended in points. We got tantalizingly close to points on several occasions, only points never happened.
“We’ll see now if Wake Forest can generate any offense,” the announcer says, and it sounds ominous. Of course, it is, but he doesn’t know that.
The two teams play the field position game. And by “field position game”, I mean attempt to run the ball behind porous offensive lines that would probably be more aptly described as traffic cones. Annoying, but easily movable.
A quick out to Hodges and it gains 2….like, what? (God he’s taken a beating on this drive)
“Our first and 10 (line) is brought to you by YP.com” (it’s 2nd and 7)
The hell? Newsome trips on his own feet with no one around and gains 1
Gross. Throw to Byrn, short of the sticks, on 3rd and 9
Here were my notes for the ensuing Wake drive, where the Deacs reached the Virginia Tech 15-yard line before…well:
The Ruby Tuesday ACC game menu; it will give you indigestion but damn does it look delicious
“Some good football today in the ACC” (not here)
Wolford finds a wide-open man (Serigne) for a gain of 22 (!!!!) and he has time!
Play-action to the outside and he loses a yard on a quick pass and it’s ew but also good defense
Wow, Wolford looks like he’s going to get swallowed by a gigantic whale-person but he gets out of it somehow and throws it away
Sets up 3rd and 11; Robinson runs (!!) for like 14 and what is this I can’t even John Fox is somewhere laughing
“How about this first quarter? What a surprise, with Wake Forest moving the ball effectively.”
Run for like 1 yard
2nd and 9, it’s intercepted by Fuller BUT HE COULDN’T HANG ON he literally just dropped it
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA Wolford throws to the corner of the end zone and it’s not close to anyone except Donavan Riley who returns it 12 yards BECAUSE GO DOWN IN THE END ZONE FOR A TOUCHBACK IDIOT
So, yeah. The deepest penetration by either team all day before overtime.
The first boos came from the Hokie faithful early in the second quarter, when Michael Brewer took a 5-yard sack on 2nd and 16. On 3rd and 21, Brewer finds Cam Phillips for an 11-yard gain but they barely get back to the original line of scrimmage. At that moment, you can hear a woman SCREAMING in the background. It’s not anguished, but it’s not a scream of joy, either. But it was just so clear, and piercing. It stopped on the next Wake possession.
Another completion for an eight-yard gain
“If you’re Virginia Tech, this is the thing you didn’t want to have happen” (Wake getting positive yardage? Um, yes)
QB sneak for 1 on 2nd and 2
Run up the middle by Wortham and he gets nothing
4th down, it’s a FG try
“John Wolford will lose that freshman stare”
42-YARD FIELD GOAL IS NO GOOD WHAT
ALSO HOW DO YOU NOT PICK UP A 2ND AND 2 WHAT ARE YOU DOING
YOU’RE UP VIRGINIA TECH!
Brewer with time, finds Byrn and Byrn gets some YAC to inside the Wake 40
ACC POY MOTLEY MOTLEY MOTLEY MOTLEY he drops back, then runs, breaks a tackle and goes inside the 35 to the 31 AND HE FUMBLES IT, Wake gets it
(announcers call him “Watley” which is like a fun combo of Wolford and Motley and oh my god this game broke me I’m broken but it broke them too)
Wake goes three-and-out, of course, and Virginia Tech gets another drive going. But basically they run the clock out so that they don’t have to punt before the half ends. I mean, that sums up this game. It was kind of a game of offensive surrender.
Brewer drops back, and does….what the hell? What was that? What was he trying to do? He’s brought down, I think? Yes. FIRST PENALTY! At the 1:56 mark. And it’s holding on 77. Declined. But…
(They say this game is watched in 175 countries and ships at sea by US military. “We hope you’re enjoying the broadcast.” Uh. I don’t think that’s what they mean when they say “support the troops”.)
Oh wait, the penalty is accepted! So it’s 1st and 20.
Brewer to Ford for a few
He drops back, has guys on top of him, gets out of it twice but is enveloped. Sack. Brings up 3rd and 17.
“Both defenses have done an outstanding job of forcing the offenses into uncomfortable situations.” (Like the back of a Volkswagen?)
Mercifully, we go to half. We all need a break from that. I take my dogs out for a brief walk to clear my head. I stumble and fumble with their leashes, and I feel like newfound clumsiness should be listed as a side effect to watching this game for extended periods.
Sideline: “All right guys, we’ve got a battle here in Winston-Salem” Okay sure if you say so maybe it is a battle of who could care less about ben folds five
I fast-forwarded through most of halftime, but I did get back in time to see the crowd shot of Grove Stadium, at least half filled with Hokie fans, as the sun shone down on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Winston-Salem. “Which offense will find a way to make a play?” the announcer wondered foolishly, and futilely.
Wake’s first drive begins promisingly, though.
BUT WAIT CHUNK PLAYS THO Wolford finds Serigne on the first play for a 17-yard gain
He finds Serigne again near midfield for a 7-yard gain
Second and 3, handoff and Wortham is hit by a tidal wave almost as soon as the handoff for -6
Wolford moves his feet to evade the rush and finds Scott for a first down inside the VT40 (it was offsides on VT, declined)
They show Beamer, who looks like he just smelled a fart in a crowded elevator and isn’t sure if it was his fart or someone else’s
Then we have like the ninth mention of Wake’s good field position (ALEX KINAL THO)
Throw out wide, Scott was going to be tackled but evades first guy and gets to the 35
Second and 5, hit as he gets the handoff “Robinson finds the going tough…again” (-2)
THE DANCING SIGNAL!!!! (FIND THE VINE)
Wolford keeps and just ugh gross
Down marker says 4th but it’s 3rd what is happening
Wolford to Serigne for the first down at the VT 25
Wolford keeper for like 6 “When we came in, the rushing numbers for Wolford for -100 or something like that, but he’s had some effective gains in the zone read game” (true enough but sounds ridiculous)
WIDE LINE SPLITS MENTION WHERE YOU AT GROBIE
Robinson is “hit by a whole host of Hokies” (lovely alliteration, announcer) as soon as he gets the ball
On 3rd and 8, it’s like a screen and he’s hit right away and loses one? “Really a poor job by Serigne to determine who he was going to block and as it turns out nobody got blocked” well that seems bad
Weaver 42-yard FG: he misses like way wide left like he shanked a drive off the tee in golf or like I do whatever
FLAG: OFFSIDES ON VT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA STOP IT
So Weaver tries a 37-yarder and he’s WIDE LEFT AGAIN (he was 7-for-7 from this distance this season) NO WAY
“Frank Beamer says yessir, now let’s kick it into gear offensively” (he didn’t even say that in his head you are such a liar) (you don’t even believe that)
And then the terrible, no-good, very-bad second half for Michael Brewer begins. He was 0-for-5 passing in the third and 3-for-11 in the second half and overtime, and that doesn’t even begin to explain how bad some of his throws were.
Fake, and badly overthrows Stanford
Coleman runs for a few to set up 3rd and 8
Brewer drops back, can find no one, it’s almost picked, FLAG
“There was a lot of bumping and grinding going on out there, Noel and Stanford were just banging each other” (OH REALLY)
PI on Wake, first down, the boos rain down
Newsome gets 2
Tries to find Coleman for a short gainer and….really wild throw; probably wouldn’t have gained much but still; sets up 3rd and 8
Bounce pass incomplete and it’s ….
“That was not…that was not…back-to-back throws by Michael Brewer, two of his worst throws of the game”
Punt, Fair catch at the 19 or so
“The beautiful Wake Forest campus has never looked better” (e
And then…yet again, Wake gets 2nd down and short and can’t convert.
Wolford to Serigne for 9 (his 9th completion in a row SOMEONE HOSE HIM OFF HE’S ON FIYAHHHHHH)
2nd and 1 to Wortham, he got a few yards! A conversion, they said! But no. Nothing. Actually zero yards.
“Our first and 10 is brought to you by YP.com” (It’s 3rd and 1) (But okay)
Wolford sneak, he got a second effort but he didn’t get there. 4th down. Punt. -___-
Virginia Tech’s turn!
COLEMAN FINDS A CREASE OMGOMGOMG to the 16-yard line creases exist
BRONX CHEERS FROM THE HOKIE FAITHFUL! <3 y’all
Coleman tries to slip through a nonexistent crease and he gets like 2 from falling down in the right direction
“17 guys have caught passes for Virginia Tech this year, including Michael Brewer, who had one batted back to him” #goacc #goacc #goacc
Aaaaaaaaand another punt. Then Wake has to punt on its next drive. After Coleman gets 14 on the first carry of the next VT drive, the announcer gets excited and yells “LOOK OUT!” and I think he was being serious. Then it goes to the fourth quarter.
“Trying to generate some offense here,” one says, hopefully, wistfully.
Brewer finds Hodges for a 15-yard gain to midfield
(They show a graphic that says it’s the first scoreless game after 3 quarters in FBS this year.) (“Wow. Little bit of an old-fashioned game!” LEATHER HELMETS LUNCH PAILS CLAWFENSE BEAMERBALL)
Brewer to Malleck for 7
Coleman gets the handoff, spins and is hit right away for lost yardage and it just looked awful
3rd and 5, blitz and he can’t even drop back. The dropback is the sack. Lee does find the gap, shoots through untouched and gets a sack for a big loss.
Punt goes inside the 15-yard line, 40-yarder.
“It brings us to 12:59 to play in the game, still scoreless”
Game summary graphic: 48 plays for 190 for VT, 48 for 170 for WF, at least 4 bouts of violent nausea
“Somebody has got to make a play to get off the goose eggs” (DON’T THEY’LL HATCH TOO EARLY)
So as you can see, this is starting to get to the announcers. Hell, it was starting to get to ME. Guess what Wake punted again. Then Virginia Tech brings in Motley yet again, and
“So the scoreless game continues with 8:39 remaining. Both of the quarterbacks having a nice day.” (I mean, it is lovely outside and they’re not dead so okay)
Wow, Wolford throws a strike to Matt James but they call him for OPI. (It’s a good call.)
They’re back in the shadow of their own goal. There’s this tiny sliver of sunlight shining on the front part of it. It almost looks like a horizon or a distant land, like it’s separate from anywhere these teams are. The referee walks into the sun. But none of the players can touch it.
Wolford drops back, and even his drop back isn’t long enough. “That ball was intended for Serigne. It never really had a chance.” “Well, it had a chance to be intercepted.” (Stared down Serigne) “He’s lucky the ball was inaccurate.” THAT’S WHERE WE ARE AT IN THIS MADNESS
2nd and 24: blitz, Wolford gets out of it, steps into the sun oh-so-briefly, gets the corner and goes out of bounds at the 20 or so. It was almost beautiful.
Sideline reporter: “Guys, I was just on the Virginia Tech sideline and the offensive coaches are exasperated. … Throwing their hands up, hands on their hips.”
ACC POY MOTLEY MOTLEY MOTLEY Motley throw to a wide open Phillips for 17, and it’s his first throw of the year off the fake and it’s a beautiful one, and the Hokie faithful show appreciation.
Motley handoff to Newsome; defense collapses on Motley and Newsome gets 7
“LET’S GO….HOKIES!” chant
2nd and 2: Motley draw to the Wake 24; brings up 3rd and 1
They take Motley out and some boos rain down? Is it the spot or the decision? They’re going to measure. Still 3rd and short.
“I’m surprised they don’t leave Motley in on 3rd and short.”
They show that Virginia Tech fans are winning some ACC Football Challenge over Wake, 71-29. This is a made-up thing.
Brewer back. Announcers question it again. Wake music to pump up the crowd.
Brewer sneaks for a first down.
Brewer pass knocked away. Not great. Slow-developing. “Had the ball come out a hair earlier, I think he had Cam Phillips available on the sideline and would’ve had a big play”
Slow-developing screen pass that’s high, and it’s knocked away, but Wake recovers because it’s a backwards pass and are you even serious with that, Brewer. It’s just awful. “At the very least, I think it’s parallel to the line of scrimmage.” It’s a turnover.
(They call Janvion “Javion” again)
“Sixth-time all time in FBS, what a list he’s (Beamer) on.” (NOT THE TIME GUYS)
A “WAKE! FOREST!” chant as they’re reviewing it.
Guy calls out Beamer for taking out Motley again.
The ruling on the field stands.
“So the scoreless game continues with 8:39 remaining. Both of the quarterbacks having a nice day.” (I mean, it is lovely outside and they’re not dead so okay)
Wow, Wolford throws a strike to Matt James but they call him for OPI. (It’s a good call.)
They’re back in the shadow of their own goal. There’s this tiny sliver of sunlight shining on the front part of it. It almost looks like a horizon or a distant land, like it’s separate from anywhere these teams are. The referee walks into the sun. But none of the players can touch it.
Wolford drops back, and even his drop back isn’t long enough. “That ball was intended for Serigne. It never really had a chance.” “Well, it had a chance to be intercepted.” (Stared down Serigne) “He’s lucky the ball was inaccurate.” THAT’S WHERE WE ARE AT IN THIS MADNESS
Brewer looks left, goes right, throws and it’s INTERCEPTED and IT IS TERRIBLE. “That was a poor pass, no receiver NEAR Noel.” “I’m not sure what Michael thought was going to happen.”
“He throws the ball in an area where Malleck was kind of in the area?”
“Frank Beamer has had incurable success in Blacksburg, but they have struggled here the last couple of years. Injuries and youth have been a problem as he’s trying to rebuild that program.” Wait, rebuild it? Didn’t he do that originally? Or did he just build it?
Wortham gets a yeoman’s run to the 45.
“You’ve got a team here in Wake Forest that is starved for a win.” (Like the fourth reference to Wake being hungry and now I’m hungry I want a Christmas cake)
Wortham gets a FD on a run
“New set of downs here as the Deacs prepare to go inside Hokie territory” (PREPARE YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY IT’S OH SO COLD THERE)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand punt
4:20 remaining on VT’s drive
“Brewer’s last throw was picked off. Let’s see how quickly they get back to the passing game.”
Coleman gets a big run but is stopped because Ford missed a block. “I don’t think Isaiah Ford had any idea J.C. Coleman had broken clean.” (31-yarder) So he didn’t block. HE STOPPED BLOCKING BECAUSE HE HAD ZERO BELIEF THAT HIS TEAMMATE WAS GOING TO GET THAT FAR.
Coleman on the other side, Wake stops him for a loss.
2nd and 12: Brewer drops back and is sacked right away.
3rd and 20: “In the scheme of things, under three minutes, how aggressive do you get here on third and long?”
Timeout, Wake. “We’ve got a good one here. Scoreless game with 2:43 left.”
Brewer gets out of pressure and has room to run but slows up again and runs out of bounds?
Punt, hits inside the 5, goes through for a touchback. “If you’re Wake Forest, watch the fake.” (Lost their damn minds are they serious)
“Here comes….the Wake Forest offense” (he seriously paused) (LOLOLOLOL)
Wake gets 3 on the first play
“It’s not going to hurt them to get this game to overtime.” It’s reached this point.
Wolford up the middle and someone loses a shoe. He gets a few. Virginia Tech uses a timeout.
After the break, they’re showing a montage of Virginia Tech fail in close losses. (Those were by an average of four. Only other loss was 30-6 to Miami and “of course the Hurricanes owned that game”. BUT WITHOUT THAT GAME OR WITHOUT WATCHING SOME OF THE OTHERS YEAH SURE OKAY)
3rd and 4: “Everything on the line” – Wolford incomplete. HOLD THE PHONE Virginia Tech was offsides. FIRST DOWN. OFFSIDES. GET. OUT. HOW. WHY. VIRGINIA TECH DOESN’T EVEN WANT TO WIN.
That sets up the end of regulation sequence, where…
2nd and 10: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Hole explodes. Nothing. Wait. Beamer’s not taking a timeout. “I would think that Wake Forest is going to play to overtime. … A little surprised that Frank didn’t burn a timeout there.” Has he just given up?
3rd and 10: Wolford rolls and finds Scott for a long gain (25). That changes conservative playcalling into something else. “How about this young quarterback?”
28 seconds left: Wolford finds Serigne at the 35. Clock keeps ticking. “Gotta take a timeout. Gotta take a timeout. Gotta take a timeout.” Clawson wanted a timeout 6-7 seconds before and is mad. MAD.
It’s a first down. Clawson is begging. No one was paying attention to him when he tried to call it. They put 24.
“Not much of a breeze blowing here at BB&T Field”
Wolford throws it away
Complete to the 27-yard line to Matt James. 11 seconds left. It’s 3rd down.
Wake players cautiously celebrating on the sideline.
3rd and 4: “They’re looking to convert here.” Fake to Robinson, tricks cameraman. Wolford gets to the 19. Timeout with 4 seconds left. Wolford dapped up by Scott, he keeps a stone face.
“Now the attention turns to Mike Weaver, the field goal kicker.” “This is a huge upset. This is a Wake Forest team that has struggled monumentally on offense. They have not been able to move the football all year long.”
“Weaver has missed two field goals here today. It would’ve been three, but one was a penalty.”
It was a 37-yard FG attempt, and he’s set up a little outside. “For the game, for the first ACC win of the year, high snap, the kick-(HORRIFIED SCREAMS IN THE BACKGROUND) is no good!” We’re going to overtime!” Beamer, grinning, raising his arms in the air, then fist-pumping. Weaver takes his helmet off slightly, peering up into the heavens as if to say, how. “It was all on the line. Weaver could’ve ended it, but pushed it right.”
TO OVERTIME WE GO
Wake gets it first at the 25. “Robinson lost a LOT.” “Just too soft up front, Tim.” Loss of 3.
2nd and 13: He throws it away. Nobody was open. “This is a little bit of a mirror of what we’ve seen throughout the game – an inability to take care of business on 1st down.” (You spelled most downs wrong)
3rd and 13: “If you don’t get the first here, do you bring Weaver back on?” “You have to.” RIGHT BECAUSE HELLO DUDE IT’S OVERTIME
Wolford pressured, gets out of it, buys time and runs out of bounds as he’s trying to run. “Oh, you can’t run out of bounds. A freshman mistake there.” IT LOST THREE YARDS AND MADE IT A 50-YARD FG STOP IT WOLFORD
They show a Wake female fan dressed all in black with her gloved hands on her cheeks, like Macauley Culkin in Home Alone.
AND HE MAKES IT OF COURSE.
“And Wake Forest leads, and it’s the first lead of this ballgame!”
“Now it’s up to Virginia Tech to either get the field goal or get the touchdown to win.”
Brewer back out. “Weaver’s gone from the outhouse back up to the penthouse.”
Coleman gets a pretty big gain to the 17-yard line. THIS GETS THE ANNOUNCERS EXCITED. “J.C. Coleman!”
Brewer to Coleman, he gets to the 15 for a first down.
“Going to go double tight ends now, try to blow Wake Forest off the football.” Aaaaand Coleman gets like 3.
2nd and 7: Coleman again to the 10.
“Joey Slye has been very effective. He’s their leading scorer.” The kicker, who has made 14 field goals this season.
“I can’t imagine Coach Beamer wants to settle for three here.” GEE YOU THINK WHO WANTS TO NOT SCORE A TOUCHDOWN THE HOTTEST GAME SHOW HOSTED BY REGIS PHILBIN
3rd and 5: Brewer rolls out, slowly, and throws it away. Jesus Christ. “He turns it down. He had Hodges in the flat.”
“I know you don’t want to throw a pick, but he’s got to give him a chance, doesn’t he?”
FG: GOOD from 28
Brewer fake on zone read, loses yards back to the 30 “Brewer’s just got no place to go”
2nd and 14: Quick throw to the original line of scrimmage or so “Cam Phillips made the tackle” (he meant catch) (whatever) (tackle too)
3rd and 9: OMG OMG OMG a sack took them way out of FG range. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL. An awful sack. They show a Wake fan smiling evilly and clapping. Or wryly. Don’t know which.
Virginia Tech burns their OT timeout. It would be a 52 or 53-yarder. They’re going to try it. “I’m not sure Brewer had much of a chance to really do anything…other than fall directly to the ground.” Then they argue about whether he could’ve fallen forward.
“WAKE! … FOREST!” chant.
His career long is 42. Slye “This….is out of his comfort zone.”
He misses it left.
Beamer, open-mouthed, in shock.
“A field goal will win it for Wake Forest.” “But that’s been the story all day long.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Rush to the 21 (4), gets 2 more on 2nd
It’s 3rd and 6. He throws it away. “It’s a smart decision though.”
A WEAVER! WEAVER! WEAVER! chant starts. Seriously. Only thing missing is a slow clap.
A 39-yarder will win it.
Beamer, arms folded. He tried to will it away, even twitching his folded arms a bit as the ball was in flight. He stood there with his mouth open.
“The kick to win it. WAKE FOREST WINS IT IN OVERTIME!” Happy Clawson. Finally because he hasn’t looked happy or ready to celebrate all game long, and understandably. They pile on Weaver.
Graphic says “Wake Forest: First ACC win this season”
Beamer hugs Clawson, grabs him to talk a little longer, which was nice.
“They scratch out a double overtime win” (scratched out their own eyes and everyone else’s eyes where are my eyes I can’t see I’m dead)
So there. I hope that you don’t have to watch now unless you really want to watch it. But just know that it’s its own special brand of #goacc. I mean, Wake’s excellent kicker was 2-of-5, and most were makeable. Virginia Tech nearly gave the game away for the second straight week (that ridiculous fake punt at Duke and then the offsides on what should have been Wake’s game-winning drive).
This game would have been better if it were mostly three-and-outs and punts and the like. But it wasn’t. What made it #goacc was that both teams had chances, and both teams kept giving the other team chances, and also that one team played strictly not to lose for much of the second half and overtime (Wake Forest). Clawson has to play that way, but still.
Wake got inside Virginia Tech’s 35-yard line or better three times in its first seven drives and managed to reach the 15, the farthest penetration by either team, before not scoring. That’s difficult to do. Virginia Tech didn’t get farther than Wake’s 10-yard line all game — INCLUDING OVERTIME!
Was it worth it? Yes. Would I advise watching it? No. So there you go. Make your own choices.
