Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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GAME PREVIEW: WAKE FOREST roster handy to keep track of the personnel changes along the offen- sive line. Already challenged to re- place four starters from the 2011 sea- son, it has been a patchwork effort by first-year of- fensive line coach Jonathan Hime- bauch to find five able bodies each and every week. Along wi th W ake Forest fans have had to keep their fa- vorite team's returning start- ing fifth-year se- nior center Gar- rick Wi l l iams, the unit's anchor and most talented player, the front five was supposed to include redshirt junior left tackle Steven Chase, redshirt sopho- more left guard Anto- nio Ford, redshirt junior right guard Frank Souza and redshirt sophomore right tackle Collin Sum- mers. Souza, originally a defensive lineman, be- BY WES MORGAN gan working with the first team early in spring practices, inspiring soph- omore Daniel Blitch to transfer to UNC Char- lotte. Souza was one of six players suspended for the Oct. 10 contest at Maryland (a 19-14 loss) schedul ing surgery. Senior Devin Bolling, who has barely played, stepped in at left tackle and came up limp in the opener against Liberty (a 20-17 victory). Despite little stability in his knee, Chase didn't complain of much pain and was reinserted into the lineup for the next five games before collapsing in a 42-13 loss to Clemson Oct. 25 and subsequently being shut down for the season. Redshirt freshman Dylan Intemann has filled in since then. Ford broke his During Wake Forest's 5-4 start, redshirt sopho- more cornerback Kevin Johnson paced the team in both interceptions (three) and passes broken up (11). PHOTO COURTESY WAKE FOREST due to a failed drug test, but has been solid other- wise for the 5-4 Demon Deacons. Chase tore his ACL on the second day of fall camp, but head coach Jim Grobe held off on season when Wake Forest ranked 99th in the nation in rushing (114.62 yards per game), it has found a way to squeeze out 112.33 rushing yards per outing this fall. "They're actual ly leg against Mary- land and was lost for the season, getting replaced by redshirt junior Whit Barnes, who had seen very little playing time in pre- vious years. Still, after a 2011