ACC Showdown Shocker: Which Dark Horse Could Topple Miami and Clemson This Season?
17. Wake Forest
- 2024 final TRACR rank: 16th
One scary thing: New coach Jake Dickert is taking over a tough job after Dave Clawson, the best coach in the program’s modern history, stepped away. Wake has repeatedly lost its best players to the transfer portal and may find itself giving lots of QB snaps to Robby Ashford, formerly of Auburn and South Carolina. This will be the definition of a rebuilding year.
One exciting thing: Dickert is a good program builder, cut from a similar cloth as Clawson. Some of his early transfers are interesting, including a big group of players joining him from Washington State, where he was previously the head coach. Wake won’t be good this year, but it shouldn’t be an ugly mess.


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