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GAME PREVIEW: WAKE FOREST running it better than I thought they'd be able to, I guess because of their passing attack, and they're doing the inverse things with setting up their running attack with their passing attack," said Dan Collins, who covers Wake Forest football for the Winston Salem- Journal. "The offen- sive line just has never really come together. It's amaz- ing that they're 5-4 with the problems they've had. They knew they were go- ing to have to build a new line. "It was just one calamity after an- other, one wave of adversity after another. I'm really surprised they've done as well as they have." Wake Forest is aver- 1,852 yards and 12 scores. Redshirt junior receiver Michael Campanaro, who missed two games with a broken hand, is a play- maker for the Demon Deacons, and leads the team with 60 receptions for 604 yards and six touchdowns. ratic this year, ranking last (12th) in the ACC in passing efficiency (116.3 rating). "Part of it is he's just Date Opponent (TV) Result/Time (ET) Sept. 1 vs. Navy* (CBS) Sept. 8 Purdue (NBC) 2012 NOTRE DAME SCHEDULE W, 50-10 Sept. 15 at Michigan State (ABC) W, 20-3 Sept. 22 Michigan (NBC) Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Stanford (NBC) vs. Miami^ (NBC) W, 20-17 W, 13-6 Nov. 3 Pittsburgh (NBC) W, 29-26 (3OT) Nov. 10 at Boston College (ABC) W, 21-6 Nov. 17 Wake Forest (NBC) Nov. 24 at USC (ABC) * at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland; ^ at Soldier Field in Chicago aging only 323.6 yards per game while junior quarterback Tanner Price (sacked 18 times) has scrambled for his life. Price threw for more than 3,000 yards and 20 touch- downs in 2011, but he hasn't had the protection or weapons at his dis- posal through nine games this season en route to which tied an ACC re- cord, against Boston Col- lege," Collins said. "He's a special player. His goal was to become the first player to have 100 catches in the ACC, which I think he would have done had he not missed those two games." Price has started the "He had 16 catches, last three seasons, but has been much more er- Oct. 20 Brigham Young (NBC) W, 17-14 Oct. 27 at Oklahoma (ABC) W, 20-13 (OT) W, 30-13 W, 41-3 3:30 p.m. 8 p.m. not getting any protec- tion from that offensive line," Collins said. "But he just hasn't been as sharp as I thought he was going to be." Other than being cornerback. Redshirt junior nose lit up by Florida State (52-0) and Clemson, Wake Forest's defense has been serviceable in league play. The Demon Deacons have held oppo- nents to 28.0 points, 155.4 rushing yards and 261.2 passing yards per game. They've come away with eight intercep- tions and are solid at linebacker and guard Nikita Whitlock was a second-team All- ACC selection last year after compiling 45 total stops, 14 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks. Through nine contests this season, he had 35 tackles, four stops behind the line of scrimmage and three QB takedowns. "He just fights you all