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2011 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4622852 ↗
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The 2011 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team represented Wake Forest University during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Jim Grobe, who was coaching his eleventh season at the school, and played its home games at BB&T Field. Wake Forest competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference, as they have since the league's inception in 1953, and are in the Atlantic Division. They finished the season 6–7, 5–3 in ACC play to finish in a tie for second place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the Music City Bowl where they were defeated by Mississippi State 17–23.

Before the season

Recruiting

On National Signing Day, the Demon Deacons received letters of intent from 14 players.

Schedule

Roster

Coaching staff

Game summaries

Syracuse

2nd meeting. 1–0 all time. Last meeting 2006, 20–10 Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem.

NC State

105th meeting.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2011 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wake, Forest and Demon, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1953, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wake, Forest and Demon is the immediate research focus.
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