Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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ON PAPER REVISITED Forest's 111th-ranked running game against Notre Dame's No. 6-rated fortress against the run. It showed with the Demon Deacons finishing with only 55 yards rushing, even with just one sack that subtracted nine yards from the rushing total. The running back trio of Deandre Martin, Tyler WAKE FOREST RUNNING GAME VS. NOTRE DAME RUN DEFENSE The top mismatch entering the contest was Wake BY LOU SOMOGYI Jackson and Josh Harris combined for 66 yards on 23 carries (2.9 yards per rush), with a long gain of 13 and no other run going beyond six yards. Advantage: Notre Dame times be the most overrated stat in football: Wake Forest junior Tanner Price (22 of 33) and Notre Dame sophomore Everett Golson (20 of 30) both com- pleted exactly 66.7 percent of their passes. The dif- ference is Golson averaged a whopping 11.5 yards per attempt while Price averaged only 4.6. Yards per attempt tells the true story, and 7.0 is generally a decent barometer. The Irish were credited with only one sack, but WAKE FOREST PASSING GAME VS. NOTRE DAME PASS DEFENSE Here is why pass completion percentage can many many times they harassed Price into a quick throw or a dump-off pass that fell short of the first down. It continued the modus operandi of keeping every- thing in front and not permitting much in the ways of yards after the catch. Advantage: Notre Dame starts, Golson carried only once for no yards against Wake Forest — yet expanded his repertoire as an op- tion threat. His well-timed pitch off the option to se- nior running back Cierre Wood on the opening series resulted in a 68-yard touchdown scamper to open the floodgates. Golson seemed to have no intention of pitching the previous week at Boston College NOTRE DAME RUNNING GAME VS. WAKE FOREST RUN DEFENSE After rushing for 269 yards in his previous five Sophomore end Stephon Tuitt and the rest of the Irish defense kept Wake Forest's run game in check, not allowing a run longer then six yards while limiting the Demon Deacons to 55 yards total. PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA when there were more openings for him, but now the pitch is going to stretch defenses even more. The run was merely an auxiliary element while Golson passed for 317 yards in the first 30 minutes. Wood finished with 150 of the team's 221 yards on