Wake Forest Demon Deacons 2009 College Football Predictions: The same thing always happens when you create a monster, as Jim Grobe has done at Wake Forest; you got to feed it. The monster of course are the expectations that come along with winning and that is something the Demon Deacons have been very successful at the past few years. Wake Forest won the ACC Championship in 2006 with an 11-3 record and has since finished 9-4 and 8-5 for the best three year period in school history. Expectations never wane once fans get the taste and 2009 college football predictions is no exception. In a preseason poll of media members who cover ACC-Football, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons are picked to finish fourth in the Atlantic Division of the ACC.
 
Oddsmakers at Bodog.com list the Demon Deacons' odds of winning the 2010 BCS National Championship at 100-to-1 odds.
 

College football predictions pundits who picked the Demon Deacons low could be eating their words by seasons end. Wake Forest returns 9-of-11 starters on offense including its quarterback, highly touted Riley Skinner. Wake's offense has often been overshadowed by its dominating defense but this years strength will undoubtedly be on offense.

Skinner enters his senior year as the most accurate passer in ACC history. Skinner has completed 639 of 949 career passes, a .673 completion percentage, just a shade better than the current career recordholder, Virginia’s Matt Schaub, whose completion percentage of .670 spanned 1,069 career pass attempts.

Skinner will benefit from having a veteran cast around him including all five starters on the offensive line in Ts Joe Birdsong and Jeff Griffin, Gs Joe Looney and Barrett McMillin and C Russell Nenon.  Also returning are TE Ben Wooster, FB Mike Rinfrette and all 3 TB’s who saw playing time in Brandon Pendergrass (528 yds), Josh Adams (402) and Kevin Harris.

The defense, however, will need major reconstruction, a job that will be built around returning starters DTs John Russell and Boo Robinson, DE Kyle Wilber and CB Brandon Ghee. Replacing Swank is a task no less daunting, but sophomore P-PK Shane Popham received valuable experience last year when Swank missed 6 games due to injury. Popham successfully converted 7 of 12 FG attempts and averaged 39.2 on 54 punts, pinning opponents inside the 20 on 19 occasions.

2009 College Football Prediction: Wake Forest goes 7-5. (Some copy used in this preview is compliments of  ACC.com)