The Deacons look good because the ACC isn't
FACEOFF: Wake Forest football: Overrated or underrated?
It's a great story, the one about the nice kids from the little school with an enrollment of 4,412 asserting themselves as an ACC powerhouse. Jim Grobe is a famously good guy, and in demand. Winning at Wake Forest is worthy of full respect in any decade.
But that ACC championship of 2006 and the best-in-the-Atlantic Division national ranking (No. 21) of this week are due in big part to unexpected collapses at Florida State and Clemson.
Grobe is a noted tactician and game coach and the Virginia graduate gets the best out of his program by redshirting everyone but the mascot. Nothing, however, beats his impeccable timing.
Burger's Take:
As Wake halted a streak of five straight ACC losing records under Grobe and went 6-2 in league play in 2006, once mighty Florida State stumbled to 3-5 (including a 30-0 loss to the Deacons) and Clemson self-destructed down the stretch (a 13-12 home loss to those Pickens County lovin' Maryland Terrapins cost the Tigers the division crown).
Grobe is 2-5 against Clemson but is favored this week, thanks to a third straight win over Florida State and another Tigers loss to Maryland.
At Wake Forest, it's Division by subtraction.
Reach Gene Sapakoff at gsapakoff@postandcourier.com or 937-5593.
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robbybobby (anonymous) says...
unexpected collapses of fl state and clemzun?? unexpected by whom, card carrying orange kool aid drinking sychophants?? Anyone who knows beans knows the tiggers always lose to good teams, sometimes even to average teams. No surprise here, just more of the same old same old in tigger town.
October 7, 2008 at 8:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
sbs920 (anonymous) says...
yeah. . . and Wake Forest got beat by who ?
N A V Y !
Whatta Joke the acc is !
They don't call it the average coast conference for nothing or the all cupcake conference !
Who in the he11 would want to be call acc champion this year? Anyone...... Anyone..... ?
October 7, 2008 at 1:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
theronce (anonymous) says...
Yeah, University of South Carolina.
October 8, 2008 at 7:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
sbs920 (anonymous) says...
ACC Championships
SS - 1
TB - 0
How many years has little tommy been in the acc ? LOL!
October 8, 2008 at 9:55 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
tbird (anonymous) says...
Another negative aimed @ WFU by the amateur writer Sapp...
Several years ago he said Wake did not belong in the ACC even though they were a charter member and organizer.
Thankgoodness I let my P/C subscrib. lapse after 28 years. The fools @ the P/C gave me an extra 3 mos. of this rag for free to lure me back, to no avail...
Sorry fools, the internet is here and I can get much better contact than Sapp.
With the coming Depression maybe I can help Sapp. out and buy an apple from him on King St.
October 8, 2008 at 12:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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