The moral of the story here is that, if your offense is terrible enough, you can lose to anybody on any given Saturday. See Penn State for more details. I'll say it again, I'd rather have a "system" offense that chucks the ball around and can score 35 points a game rather than just slog out games. The fewer scores there are going to be in a given game, the likelier it is that you can get tagged on a fluky play or two.
. Wake had the 127th ranked offense coming into today in terms of points per game, and Va Tech found a way to lose. They had to get into the end zone once. And the thing is, if a team like Wake played a team like Cal, they wouldn't be able to score on them either since they beat themselves more times than not, so if Va Tech had a creative offense (and assuming for argument's sake that offensive coaches ignore the defensive side of the ball to a detriment or that the defense gets worn out, etc.), they would have still won this game. Plain and simple.