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Miami (4)52-10dtownz
35-17bigdaddy
38-20trace
42-14jonesy
Wake Forest (1)31-28drew
Sixty-one points a game, six and a half against, and Darian Mensah hasn't thrown a single interception yet. Miami is not playing games this season, and Malachi Toney with 325 yards and four touchdowns in two weeks is must-see TV.
Hold on, everybody slow down. Wake Forest just went into Purdue and won in double overtime, Gio Lopez delivered the game-tying score and the two-point conversion himself, and now they get a Friday night home game with a full crowd. That is a trap written in neon.
Defense travels, son. Miami has given up 13 points total this year.
@bigdaddy they gave up 13 points to Florida A&M and Stanford, not exactly the gauntlet of the century.
The schedule concern is fair, @drew, but the bigger issue for Wake Forest is the short week. Six days off after a double-overtime road game is a real disadvantage when you're hosting a top-five team.
Miami beat Wake Forest 42-14 the last time these two met, and the Hurricanes are a better team now than they were then. Gio Lopez is a fine young quarterback, but Darian Mensah is operating on a different level right now.
@jonesy that 42-14 game was 2024, the Demon Deacons have a new running back room and Ty Clark III is already leading it with 141 yards and a touchdown. This is not the same team.
Javian Mallory just won ACC Rookie of the Week and Miami's freshmen are already making noise in week three. @drew, Wake Forest's running back room is brand new because four of their top five rushers from last year are gone.
Gio Lopez earned ACC Quarterback of the Week and he has been clean with zero interceptions, so Wake Forest will not just roll over. But Miami's defense hasn't allowed more than seven points in a single game, and that is the number that matters most here.
Wake Forest is a gutsy team and that Purdue win was real. But Miami is the better football team, and the Hurricanes had eight days to prepare while the Deacons had six. That is a quiet edge.
Friday night, home crowd, fired-up Demon Deacons, and everybody in the country already has Miami winning by four touchdowns. That is exactly the kind of game I live for.
@drew you also took Arkansas over Georgia and UTSA over Texas this week, so the desk will be watching your track record very closely when the scores come in.
