1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
Aloha Bowl champion
1999 Aloha Bowl, W 23–3 vs. Arizona State
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Record	7–5 (3–5 ACC)
Head coach	Jim Caldwell (7th season);
Co-offensive coordinators	George Belu (1st season); Jamie Barresi (1st season);
Offensive scheme	Pro-style
Defensive coordinator	James Bell (3rd season)
Base defense	4–3
Captains	Jammie Deese; Dustin Lyman; DaLawn Parrish; Ben Sankey;
Home stadium	Groves Stadium
	Seasons ← 1998 2000 →

The 1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh season under head coach Jim Caldwell, the Demon Deacons compiled a 7–5 record, finished in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and defeated Arizona State in the 1999 Aloha Bowl.^[1]

1999 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 1 Florida State $#	8	–	0	12	–	0
No. 17 Georgia Tech	5	–	3	8	–	4
Virginia	5	–	3	7	–	5
Clemson	5	–	3	6	–	6
Wake Forest	3	–	5	7	–	5
NC State	3	–	5	6	–	6
Duke	3	–	5	3	–	8
Maryland	2	–	6	5	–	6
North Carolina	2	–	6	3	–	8

# – BCS National Champion $ – BCS representative as conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	12:00 pm	at Army*	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	FSN	W 34–15	29,646
September 18	7:00 pm	at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA	ESPN2	L 7–35	50,000
September 25	12:00 pm	No. 25 NC State	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)	JPS	W 31–7	23,450
October 2	6:30 pm	Rutgers*	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC		W 17–10	20,772
October 9	12:00 pm	Maryland	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	JPS	L 14–17	19,321
October 16	7:00 pm	at No. 1 Florida State	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL		L 10–33	78,105
October 23	3:30 pm	UAB*	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC		W 47–3	20,578	^[2]
October 30	12:00 pm	Clemson	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	JPS	L 3–12	21,105
November 6	1:30 pm	at North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)		W 19–3	40,000
November 13	1:30 pm	at Duke	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC (rivalry)		L 35–48	29,457
November 20	3:30 pm	No. 14 Georgia Tech	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC		W 26–23	25,230
December 25	3:30 pm	vs. Arizona State*	Aloha Stadium Halawa, HI (Aloha Bowl)	ABC	W 23–3	40,974
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
QB	`13`	Ben Sankey	Sr
WR	`21`	Jammie Deese	Sr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
LB	`43`	Dustin Lyman	Sr
DT	`90`	Fred Robbins	Sr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Category	Team Leader	Att/Cth	Yds
Passing	Ben Sankey	133/224	1,496
Rushing	Morgan Kane	275	1,161
Receiving	Jammie Deese	32	444

↑ "1999 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
↑ "UAB suffers worst loss since joining I-A". The Courier-Journal. October 24, 1999. Retrieved December 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.