Athlon Sports ranked all 128 FBS teams, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons were ranked 64th. Is that an accurate ranking? Where does that place Wake Forest among other ACC teams? Let's take a look.
Wake Forest's ranking of 64, places them of three other ACC teams: Boston College, Virginia, and Syracuse. It puts them 5th in the ACC Atlantic, and puts them just 5 spots behind NC State. Wake is currently ranked 74th in the projected S&P+ ratings from Football Outsiders, so the Athlon Sports projection is actually optimistic compared to some analytical projections.
It's a cop out, but it's not easy to project what the 2016 Wake Forest football team.