UVA and Wake Forest were 13th and 14th, respectively, in the final 2023 ACC Football standings.
The media folks put Wake 15th and UVA 16th in the newly-expanded 17-team ACC ahead of the 2024 season.
Not a lot is expected from them, obviously, with either – and as the teams head into their Week 2 matchup in Winston-Salem (7 p.m., ESPN2), even less is known.
What we know about Wake
The Demon Deacons put up 513 yards of total offense in a 45-13 win over North Carolina A&T in their opener last week.
The well-traveled Hank Bachmeier, a 25-year-old sixth-year, is the QB. Bachmeier played for four years at Boise State, passing for 1,879 yards and nine TDs as a freshman way back in 2019, and a career-high 3,079 yards and 20 TDs in 2021.
After a year at Louisiana Tech, Bachmeier is in his third senior season with a different uniform on his back.
He passed for 263 yards and three TDs in the opener last week.
Junior tailback Demond Claiborne rushed for 135 yards and a TD, three catches for 35 yards and 37 yards on two kick returns in the win.
Fifth-year senior wideout Taylor Morin had six catches for 100 yards and a 73-yard punt-return TD.
Morin has been productive since his 2020 freshman season, putting up at least 32 catches in each of his first four seasons at Wake.
The defense recorded three sacks, with fifth-year senior Kevin Pointer getting one, and 2.5 tackles for loss.
Senior safety Nick Anderson had a team-best 14 tackles.
What we know about UVA
On the UVA side, sophomore Anthony Colandrea, who won the QB battle with fifth-year senior Tony Muskett in training camp, was on point in Virginia’s 34-13 win over Richmond, going 17-of-23 through the air for 297 yards and three TDs, and putting up 79 sack-adjusted yards on the ground.
Fifth-year senior tailback Kobe Pace had 93 yards on the ground on 11 carries, leading a rushing attack that put up 229 sack-adjusted yards and averaged 6.5 yards per attempt.
Wideout Malachi Fields had five catches on six targets for 100 yards through the air.
The UVA defense limited Richmond to 257 yards of total offense.
Details
Series: Virginia leads series, 34-17
Last meeting: Wake Forest, 37-17 (2021)
ESPN2: Mike Monaco (play-by-play), Kirk Morrison (analyst), Dawn Davenport (sideline)
School Radio Feeds: Virginia / Wake Forest
SiriusXM Radio: SiriusXM 162 / SiriusXM 194 / SiriusXM 391
SiriusXM App: SiriusXM 956 / SiriusXM 981
Line: Wake Forest -2
Over/under: 55.5
Projected score: Wake 28, UVA 27
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