Wake Forest

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LouderVol said:
No one besides Georgia, Bama, and OSU belong in the conversation.

There are very few elite teams, a good bit of great teams, oregon, ok, cinci, michigan st maybe, sec #3, wake maybe. None of the great teams are going to beat the elite teams in a playoff situation.
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Then we should just go back to the BCS format
 
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is there anyone on here that remembers when Wake Forest was actually in Wake Forest? The Big 4 was fun to follow then; you could catch a game in Chapel Hill at noon, watch Dook on the tube late afternoon and be in Raleigh for the 7:30 game. basketball was even better. I couldn't afford it but I had a neighbor who saw Carolina, State and Wake all play home games one Saturday! I guess Dook was out of town that day. When RJ Reynolds took Wake to W-S it took away some charm to the Triangle. Anyway, Wake Forest is a great academic school and i am glad to see them prosper in football
 
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The #9 Deacs are 2 point underdogs to the Preseason #10, perennial Sleeping Giant of the college football world 4-4 University of North Carolina Tar Heels.
 
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Sin City Vol said:
Not even Oregon? Who beat OSU. I mean Bama is tough but lost to a 2 loss A&M team. Michigan St is undefeated and may stay that way. Lots of football to play, should get interesting
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Pretty sure Mich St goes down to OSU. Bama loses to Ga in SECCG. So that knocks both out. If Oregon wins out they are in. tOSU will be in. So then it comes down Cincy or Oklahoma. IMO, Oklahoma loses Bedlam, putting Cincy in. This assumes WF loses along the way. IF, Wake wins out , I would put them in ahead of Cincy.
 
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Watch Wake beat UNC this weekend and then Gameday be in Raleigh for the massive ACC Atlantic showdown.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
You think Wake will handle Carolina? I don’t know about that.
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In the last 4 games they’ve given up somewhere in the neighborhood of 166 points not including the 7 from Duke. All against bad teams Mia, GT, FSU) with the expecting to ND. Now, go back another week and add another 39 too it from Virginia.

I don’t see them winning without Wake just having a bad game from all fronts.
 
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Sparty has beat exactly one team with a winning record, Mich. Cincy has beat ND at South Bend and everyone wants to dismiss that but include Oregon's win over Buckeyes as a seminal event and forget their loss to a terrible Stanford . Lot of football left to play!!!
 
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bamawriter said:
Depends on what happens around them. If Bama wins out and gives UGA their only loss, the SEC gets 2 of the 4 spots. That's going to make it really tough. 1 loss tOSU gets in over them. Oregon might as well. And of course Cincinnati could steal a seed.
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I hate it as I’d love to see a Group of 5 team make it but Cinci is screwed. They need, at a minimum, 2 of 3 to lose between Bama, Oregon, and Oklahoma and I bet they actually need more help than that. Wake would probably jump Cinci eventually but it won’t matter. WF will lose somewhere.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I’m sure they want all 5 leagues to have a team that gets in. I personally think that is garbage, at least without some sort of stipulation saying that the league has to at least be ranked in the top 12 or 15 or something.
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That’s why if we expand I’d rather just do like basketball. Go all the way to 16, let every conference champ in, and then use at-large spots to fill the remaining slots.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Watch Wake beat UNC this weekend and then Gameday be in Raleigh for the massive ACC Atlantic showdown.
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Either way, this week’s game doesn’t determine or change anything regarding the ACC race, let alone the Atlantic Division race.
 
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hUTch2002 said:
That’s why if we expand I’d rather just do like basketball. Go all the way to 16, let every conference champ in, and then use at-large spots to fill the remaining slots.
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I want expansion, but I don’t want a guaranteed conference champ in. I don’t think an 7-5 unranked Northwestern team that pulled an upset over am 11-1 should get in the CFP. Or I at least think the conference has to be ranked in the top 15 .
 
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onthehill71 said:
Sparty has beat exactly one team with a winning record, Mich. Cincy has beat ND at South Bend and everyone wants to dismiss that but include Oregon's win over Buckeyes as a seminal event and forget their loss to a terrible Stanford . Lot of football left to play!!!
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Stanford's 52-7 loss to Utah turns Oregon's bad loss into an historically pathetic loss. Makes ya scratch your head about Ohio State's home loss to the Ducks. How's the committee gonna spin this one?
 
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Dudleys87 said:
In the last 4 games they’ve given up somewhere in the neighborhood of 166 points not including the 7 from Duke. All against bad teams Mia, GT, FSU) with the expecting to ND. Now, go back another week and add another 39 too it from Virginia.

I don’t see them winning without Wake just having a bad game from all fronts.
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Wake’s defense has been sort of up and down also.
 
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House of Neyland said:
And Wake’s Cinderella season comes to a end maybe they should learn to play defense
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Think about what they have to play with / can recruit. Add in losing the 4 top DBs during the game.

To be fair, it’s mostly just trying to do what they can given what’s there and there’s so little to work with that there’s very little room for injury error to begin with given the depth. It’s sort of a minor miracle they’ve had this good of a run this year (or the 7-8-wins runs the last few years) and haven’t been Vanderbilt.

Being real about this program: there’s an underlying reason it took the school so long to actually get into the AP top 10 and that they were the last Power 5 team to do so.
 
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