Wake Forest Athletics
Clawson Named AP Midseason ACC Coach of the Year
10/20/2021 7:31:00 PM | Football
The eighth-year Wake Forest head coach was the unanimous choice as the ACC’s top coach through the season’s first half in voting by AP writers covering league teams.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson was named the Associated Press Midseason ACC Coach of the Year, as announced Wednesday.
The eighth-year Wake Forest head coach was the unanimous choice as the ACC's top coach through the season's first half in voting by AP writers covering league teams.
The Demon Deacons are currently off to their best start in the Clawson era and the second best start in school history. Additionally, the Deacs are off to a 4-0 start in ACC play for the first time in program history.
The Demon Deacons became the first program in the Atlantic Coast Conference to become bowl eligible with its win over Syracuse. Wake Forest has now extended the conference's third-longest bowl streak to six consecutive seasons.
Wake Forest has scored 232 combined points this season, the second-highest total in school history through the first six games. This ranks behind the 2019 Demon Deacons, who scored 238 points (Utah State, 38; Rice, 41; North Carolina, 24; Elon, 49; Boston College, 27; Louisville, 59).
During his time in Winston-Salem, Clawson co-owns the school record for bowl victories, has climbed to the third-most wins in school history, and has led Wake Forest to a five-year period (2016-21) of success that had been unmatched since the 1940s.
Clawson has also engineered an offense that has rewritten the record books at Wake Forest. The Deacons have set over 300 school records including marks for points scored, points per game, total offensive yards, first downs and passing yards over the past four seasons.
The Demon Deacons could very well be on their way to another record-breaking season. The Deacs have averaged a program-record 38.7 points per game, nearly three points better than a season ago when Wake Forest finished the season with a program-best 36.0 points per game.
The Demon Deacons enter week eight of the college football season as one of just four FBS programs to score 30 or more points in every game this season.
Wake Forest also has been one of the best at turning over the opponent this season, ranking fifth with a +8 turnover margin and 12th in the nation with 14 turnovers gained.
In addition to turning the ball over the Demon Deacon defense also see themselves inside of the top-25 in a number of other categories: Sacks (8th, 3.5 per game), Redzone D (24nd, .737), TFL/G (10th, 7.3), Turnovers Gained (12th, 14), Fumble Recovered (10th, 7) and 4th Down Conversion Pct. Defense (1st, .125%).
The eighth-year Wake Forest head coach was the unanimous choice as the ACC's top coach through the season's first half in voting by AP writers covering league teams.
The Demon Deacons are currently off to their best start in the Clawson era and the second best start in school history. Additionally, the Deacs are off to a 4-0 start in ACC play for the first time in program history.
The Demon Deacons became the first program in the Atlantic Coast Conference to become bowl eligible with its win over Syracuse. Wake Forest has now extended the conference's third-longest bowl streak to six consecutive seasons.
Wake Forest has scored 232 combined points this season, the second-highest total in school history through the first six games. This ranks behind the 2019 Demon Deacons, who scored 238 points (Utah State, 38; Rice, 41; North Carolina, 24; Elon, 49; Boston College, 27; Louisville, 59).
During his time in Winston-Salem, Clawson co-owns the school record for bowl victories, has climbed to the third-most wins in school history, and has led Wake Forest to a five-year period (2016-21) of success that had been unmatched since the 1940s.
Clawson has also engineered an offense that has rewritten the record books at Wake Forest. The Deacons have set over 300 school records including marks for points scored, points per game, total offensive yards, first downs and passing yards over the past four seasons.
The Demon Deacons could very well be on their way to another record-breaking season. The Deacs have averaged a program-record 38.7 points per game, nearly three points better than a season ago when Wake Forest finished the season with a program-best 36.0 points per game.
The Demon Deacons enter week eight of the college football season as one of just four FBS programs to score 30 or more points in every game this season.
Wake Forest also has been one of the best at turning over the opponent this season, ranking fifth with a +8 turnover margin and 12th in the nation with 14 turnovers gained.
In addition to turning the ball over the Demon Deacon defense also see themselves inside of the top-25 in a number of other categories: Sacks (8th, 3.5 per game), Redzone D (24nd, .737), TFL/G (10th, 7.3), Turnovers Gained (12th, 14), Fumble Recovered (10th, 7) and 4th Down Conversion Pct. Defense (1st, .125%).
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