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T&L Opponent Preview: Deacons Illustrated's Conor O'Neill Previews MSU-Wake Forest

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports, News, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mississippi State heads to the Duke's Mayo Bowl to take on a Wake Forest that exceeded expectations in 2025. Brian Hadad welcomes Conor O'Neill of On3's Deacons Illustrated to the podcast for a preview of the Demon Deacons. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

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0:00.0

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Modern Wellness.com. The last opponent preview of the 2025 season, but the first

0:44.5

opponent preview of 2026 falls to Wake Forest and Connor O'Neill of Deacons illustrated, part of the

0:50.2

On 3 network. And Connor, as a guy who's watched a lot of SEC football over the last few years, I had thought the ship had sailed on Robbie Ashford, ever being any kind of quarterback. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I watched him play. I was like, gosh, if he would just move to receiver or something, he could be a star, because he's a great athlete. They finally cracked the code for him at Wake Forest. How did they do it?

1:12.8

Oof.

1:15.9

They've put him in the right positions, right?

1:18.5

Like, they've used him as a runner.

1:21.8

They've not been the greatest offense in the world, even in the ACC.

1:30.7

But they've at least, they gave him enough weapons. I say that in light of the 12 games that were this season and not the

1:36.6

bowl game because two of those big weapons are going to be missing for Wake, but they've, they've

1:43.9

done a lot of work with Robbie

1:45.2

and it paid off

1:46.9

watching fall camp practices

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