The point of the gamethread introduction is to give you, the readers, a sort of pep talk. Here’s the opponent, they’re a goliath we could topple or a David we should squash. Now let’s go talk about the game like warrior-poets or whatever.
We’re playing Wake.
Wake stands squarely outside the mosh pit of hate that ACC fans gleefully dive into most weeks. They’re on the wrong side of the divisional divide for Virginia fans to regularly get annoyed with them. When they do well, you rightfully are more angry at your own program because if any school in this conference has the right to point to institutional roadblocks to football success - it’s Wake.