1997 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

1997 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
1997 record 5–6 (3–5 ACC)
Head coach Jim Caldwell (5th season)
Home stadium Groves Stadium
(Capacity: 31,500)
1997 ACC football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 3 Florida State $  8 –0     11 –1  
No. 6 North Carolina  7 –1     11 –1  
Virginia  5 –3     7 –4  
No. 25 Georgia Tech  5 –3     7 –5  
Clemson  4 –4     7 –5  
NC State  3 –5     6 –5  
Wake Forest  3 –5     5 –6  
Maryland  1 –7     2 –9  
Duke  0 –8     2 –9  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1997 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth season under head coach Jim Caldwell, the Demon Deacons compiled a 5–6 record and finished in a tie for sixth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.[1]

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance
September 6 3:30 PM No. 21 Northwestern* Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC ABC W 27–20   24,320
September 13 3:30 PM at East Carolina* Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium • Greenville, NC FSN L 24–25   38,031
September 20 6:30 PM Georgia Tech Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC L 26–28   22,832
September 25 8:00 PM NC State Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC ESPN W 19–18   24,259
October 4 12:00 PM at Virginia Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, VA JPS L 13–21   40,000
October 11 12:00 PM at No. 5 North Carolina Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC JPS L 12–30   57,000
October 18 1:00 PM Maryland Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC W 35–17   17,893
October 25 12:00 PM at Duke Wallace Wade Stadium • Durham, NC JPS W 38–24   28,531
November 1 12:00 PM Clemsondagger Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC JPS L 16–33   23,411
November 8 12:00 PM at Rutgers Rutgers Stadium • Piscataway, NJ ESPN+ W 28–14   11,717
November 15 12:00 PM at No. 2 Florida State Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, FL JPS L 7–58   70,026
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Team leaders

CategoryTeam LeaderAtt/CthYds
PassingBrian Kuklick190/3122,180
RushingHerman Lewis114491
ReceivingDesmond Clark72950

References

  1. ↑ "1997 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
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