Without that blocked punt, and a short field from WF's horrendous special teams unit, A&M would be scoreless. A&M only has 10 rushing yards at this point.
So has watering down the system. It's not cheap to fly into Charlotte from Houston or wherever and then stay in uptown Charlotte this time of year for a crappy bowl game. Wake fans only have an hour and a half drive, but they don't even fill up their own home games..
Playoffs have nothing to do with it; those same bowls were empty before them. Nobody wants to spend money to go watch a ton of barely .500 teams play each other.
Wake Forest has been kind of Missouri-like on offense this year. That said, their defense is awful, so 2 minutes is really more than enough barring a mistake.