Three Wake Forest Football Games You Don’t Want to Miss

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Three games on the Wake Forest schedule have that extra sparkle. Before your Fall schedule gets too chock full, block time for these three football feuds.

At the top of that list will be when the team travels to Notre Dame on November 18^th to vie with their former star quarterback, Sam Hartman. Beloved by Wake Forest fans, players, and coaches, on that day Sam will not be wearing the gold and black he’s been seen in so often. Seeing old Sam sporting the Notre Dame navy blue and gold will remind us all that life keeps transitioning, artificial intelligence continues expanding its influence, and football season rampages on unabated.

For those of us who watched him pass for a truckload of touchdowns as a Demon Deacon – 110 to insert a surgeon’s precision into this — Sam will look unusual strutting around in different colors out there in the Midwest, seemingly a continent away from Winston-Salem.

For the Demon Deacons, he perfected the delayed run-pass option mesh offensive scheme. Count on him directing that same difficult-to-stop, difficult-to-copy, difficult-to-ascertain, difficult-to-unpack, difficult-to-explain strategy against his former team. As a countermeasure, count on Wake’s offense using the scheme against the Fighting Irish. Mesh on mesh-like never before in human history.

The second marquee game will play out on October 21 when the University of Pittsburgh travels to Winston-Salem. They may not be welcomed with the warmest of embraces because two years ago in the ACC Championship, the Panthers from western Pennsylvania ruined hopes for Wake’s league championship and an all-night party in Charlotte among 30,000 ready-to-rally Wake students and alumni.

That was painful enough, but rendering it more distasteful were Pitt’s defenders apparently faking injuries to slow the Wake offense, apparently conceding they couldn’t stop the clever scheme.

Apparently, maybe certainly.

The third game will be the following Saturday at home versus Florida State. News has been popping the past few weeks that Florida State thinks its football program is too high-brow and elite to remain in the ACC, so it’s making overtures to join the talent-flooded Southeastern Conference.

It may strike some ACC observers as at least a tad bit pompous and presumptuous that Florida State thinks it’s too good for the ACC when, for the past three seasons, it hasn’t been able to beat Wake Forest.

Dial up this game to find out if Florida State can manage to lose four straight years to a school with a less renowned football program – then see if they keep yapping about being too good for the ACC.