#294 ASA PLAY ON 8* Wake Forest -16.5 over Rutgers, Friday at 11 AM ET - This is a terrible spot for Rutgers who had turned in their gear and called it a season a month ago. Once Texas A&M opted out of this game, the Gator Bowl was looking for anyone to oppose Wake here. The Scarlet Knight players were all on Xmas break at home when they were told to come back to campus so they could practice to get ready for this game. They haven’t been on the field together since November 27th, a 40-16 blowout loss to Maryland, and now they’ve had less than a week to get ready for this game. Not ideal to say the least. This Rutgers offense won’t be able to keep up in this game. Wake Forest is 12th nationally in total offense and 5th in scoring at 41 PPG. Rutgers is 118th in total offense, 113th in scoring, and they were held to 17 points or less in 8 of their 12 games this season. In Big 10 games alone they averaged just 13.6 PPG. Their defense faced only 1 team that is somewhat comparable to Wake offensively and that was Ohio State. In that game Rutgers gave up 52 points by that was misleading. OSU had 45 at halftime and 52 with 10 minutes to go in the THIRD QUARTER before they called off the dogs. We’re not insinuating that Wake as a team is as good as Ohio State, but offensively they are close. The Deacs will score 40+ in this game and we see no way Rutgers can score enough to keep this within 2 TD’s. Lay it.