2001 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

2001 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
2001 record	6–5 (3–5 ACC)
Head coach	Jim Grobe (1st year)
Home stadium	Groves Stadium (Capacity: 31,500)

2001 ACC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
#11 Maryland $		7	–	1		10	–	2
#15 Florida State		6	–	2		8	–	4
North Carolina		5	–	3		8	–	5
Clemson		4	–	4		7	–	5
#24 Georgia Tech		4	–	4		8	–	5
NC State		4	–	4		7	–	5
Wake Forest		3	–	5		6	–	5
Virginia		3	–	5		5	–	7
Duke		0	–	8		0	–	11

$ – BCS representative as conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 2001 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Jim Grobe, the Demon Deacons compiled a 6–5 record and finished in a tie for seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	7:00 PM	at East Carolina*	Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium • Greenville, NC		W 21–19	36,794
September 8	6:30 PM	Appalachian State*	Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC		W 20–10	29,127
September 22	3:30 PM	Maryland	Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC		L 20–27	22,372
September 29	7:00 PM	at Florida State*	Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, Florida	PPV	L 24–48	79,162
October 6	6:30 PM	NC State	Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC		L 14–17	27,401
October 13	1:00 PM	at Duke	Wallace Wade Stadium • Durham, NC		W 42–35	10,835
October 27	12:00 PM	Clemson	Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC	JPS	L 14–21	21,290
November 3	12:00 PM	at Virginia	Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, VA	JPS	W 34–30	50,228
November 10	12:00 PM	at North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC	JPS	W 32–31	53,000
November 17	12:00 PM	Georgia Tech	Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC	JPS	L 33–38	24,263
November 24	1:00 PM	Northern Illinois*	Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC		W 38–35	14,100
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Category	Team Leader	Att/Cth	Yds
Passing	James MacPherson	113/209	1,555
Rushing	Tarence Williams	249	1,018
Receiving	Jason Anderson	28	472

↑ "2001 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

Venues	Groves Stadium (1940–1955) Bowman Gray Stadium (1956–1965) BB&T Field (1968–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Tobacco Road North Carolina–Wake Forest rivalry

Culture & lore	Demon Deacon The 5th Quarter

People	NFL draftees Statistical leaders

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