Dave Clawson Tabbed as ACC Coach of the Year
12/2/2021 8:00:00 AM | Football
This marks the ninth time a Wake Forest head coach has been honored as the ACC Football Coach of the Year and the first since 2006.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson was named the 2021 ACC Coach of the Year, as announced by the league on Thursday morning. This marks the ninth time a Wake Forest head coach has been honored as the ACC Football Coach of the Year and the first since 2006.
Clawson was the choice of 49 voters among a 64-member panel of 50 select media members and each of the league's 14 head coaches. This announcement comes on the heels of Clawson being named to the Paul "Bear" Bryant Awards Coach of the Year Watch List and Dodd Trophy Midseason Watch List earlier this season.
Clawson is the seventh Wake Forest head coach to win the award. Others who won the award were Jim Grobe (2006), Bill Dooley (1992 and 1987), John Mackovic (1979), Cal Stool (1970), William Tate (1964) and Paul Amen (1959 and 1955).
Wake Forest finished the regular season 10-2 overall and posted a 7-1 conference record after being picked for a fifth-place Atlantic Division finish in the league's preseason media poll. The Demon Deacons, who did not receive a first-place vote from any of the preseason poll's 147 voters, opened the season 8-0, earned a top-10 national ranking and earned bowl eligibility for a program-record sixth-consecutive season.
Overall this season, Wake Forest earned six victories over bowl-eligible teams which was the most in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Wake Forest placed a program-record 15 players on the 2021 All-ACC Teams and heads into the Subway ACC Football Championship Game third among all FBS teams in scoring at 42.9 points per game.
This fall is just the second time in program history that Wake Forest has won 10 games and the Demon Deacons seven league victories in 2021 are the most in program history.
Wake Forest is 15-2 at home since the start of the 2019 season. Additionally with a perfect 6-0 mark this season, the Deacs recorded their first undefeated home record for the first time since 1979 and just the third time since Wake Forest's 1970 ACC Championship team. The six home wins ties the program record that was set in 2019.
Wake Forest has won nine-straight games inside Truist Field which marks the longest home winning streak in program history. The streak dates back to the win over Campbell on Oct. 2, 2020.
Nationally after climbing into the top 10 of the Associated Press and Amway Coaches Poll this season, the Wake Forest football team achieved its highest ranking in the College Football Playoff Poll in school history when the first ranking was released on Nov. 2 as the Demon Deacons were tabbed as the No. 9 this week according to the CFP selection committee.
Dave Clawson is 50-47 in his eight-year tenure with the Demon Deacons. He is one just five head coaches in program history to have a winning record in his coaching career at Wake Forest and the first since D.C. "Peahead" Walker (77-51-6; 1937-50).
Clawson was the choice of 49 voters among a 64-member panel of 50 select media members and each of the league's 14 head coaches. This announcement comes on the heels of Clawson being named to the Paul "Bear" Bryant Awards Coach of the Year Watch List and Dodd Trophy Midseason Watch List earlier this season.
Clawson is the seventh Wake Forest head coach to win the award. Others who won the award were Jim Grobe (2006), Bill Dooley (1992 and 1987), John Mackovic (1979), Cal Stool (1970), William Tate (1964) and Paul Amen (1959 and 1955).
Wake Forest finished the regular season 10-2 overall and posted a 7-1 conference record after being picked for a fifth-place Atlantic Division finish in the league's preseason media poll. The Demon Deacons, who did not receive a first-place vote from any of the preseason poll's 147 voters, opened the season 8-0, earned a top-10 national ranking and earned bowl eligibility for a program-record sixth-consecutive season.
Overall this season, Wake Forest earned six victories over bowl-eligible teams which was the most in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Wake Forest placed a program-record 15 players on the 2021 All-ACC Teams and heads into the Subway ACC Football Championship Game third among all FBS teams in scoring at 42.9 points per game.
This fall is just the second time in program history that Wake Forest has won 10 games and the Demon Deacons seven league victories in 2021 are the most in program history.
Wake Forest is 15-2 at home since the start of the 2019 season. Additionally with a perfect 6-0 mark this season, the Deacs recorded their first undefeated home record for the first time since 1979 and just the third time since Wake Forest's 1970 ACC Championship team. The six home wins ties the program record that was set in 2019.
Wake Forest has won nine-straight games inside Truist Field which marks the longest home winning streak in program history. The streak dates back to the win over Campbell on Oct. 2, 2020.
Nationally after climbing into the top 10 of the Associated Press and Amway Coaches Poll this season, the Wake Forest football team achieved its highest ranking in the College Football Playoff Poll in school history when the first ranking was released on Nov. 2 as the Demon Deacons were tabbed as the No. 9 this week according to the CFP selection committee.
Dave Clawson is 50-47 in his eight-year tenure with the Demon Deacons. He is one just five head coaches in program history to have a winning record in his coaching career at Wake Forest and the first since D.C. "Peahead" Walker (77-51-6; 1937-50).
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