1997 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

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1997 Atlantic Coast Conference 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.

Schedule

September 63:30 PMNo. 21 Northwestern*

• Groves Stadium
• Winston-Salem, NC

ABCW 27–20 24,320 September 133:30 PMat East Carolina*

• Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium
• Greenville, NC

FSNL 24–25 38,031 September 206:30 PMGeorgia Tech

• Groves Stadium
• Winston-Salem, NC

L 26–28 22,832 September 258:00 PMNC State

• Groves Stadium
• Winston-Salem, NC

ESPNW 19–18 24,259 October 412:00 PMat Virginia

• Scott Stadium
• Charlottesville, VA

JPSL 13–21 40,000 October 1112:00 PMat No. 5 North Carolina

• Kenan Memorial Stadium
• Chapel Hill, NC

JPSL 12–30 57,000 October 181:00 PMMaryland

• Groves Stadium
• Winston-Salem, NC

W 35–17 17,893 October 2512:00 PMat Duke

• Wallace Wade Stadium
• Durham, NC

JPSW 38–24 28,531 November 112:00 PMClemson

• Groves Stadium
• Winston-Salem, NC

JPSL 16–33 23,411 November 812:00 PMat Rutgers

• Rutgers Stadium
• Piscataway, NJ

ESPN+W 28–14 11,717 November 1512:00 PMat No. 2 Florida State

• Doak Campbell Stadium
• Tallahassee, FL

JPSL 7–58 70,026

Team leaders

Category	Team Leader	Att/Cth	Yds
Passing	Brian Kuklick	190/312	2,180
Rushing	Herman Lewis	114	491
Receiving	Desmond Clark	72	950