1968 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

1968 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1968 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
1968 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
1968 record	2–7–1 (2–3–1 ACC)
Head coach	Bill Tate (5th season);
Captain	Game captains
Home stadium	Groves Stadium
	Seasons ← 1967 1969 →

The 1968 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Bill Tate, the Demon Deacons compiled a 2-7-1 record and finished in sixth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 14	NC State	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)	L 6–10	30,000
September 21	Clemson	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	T 20–20	22,000
October 5	at Minnesota*	Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN	L 19–24	39,277
October 12	at VPI*	Lane Stadium Blacksburg, VA	L 6–7	31,000
October 19	at No. 5 Purdue*	Ross–Ade Stadium [West Lafayette, IN	L 27–28	57,694
October 26	North Carolina	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)	W 48–31	30,000
November 2	Maryland	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	W 38–14	15,500
November 9	South Carolina	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	L 21–34	16,000
November 16	at Duke	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC	L 3–18	17,500
November 23	at Florida State*	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	L 24–42	35,108
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Category	Team Leader	Att/Cth	Yds
Passing	Freddie Summers	125/250	1,664
Rushing	Freddie Summers	159	439
Receiving	Ron Jurewicz	28	451

^ "1968 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
^ "1968 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

v t Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
Venues	Gore Field (1922–1939) Groves Stadium (1940–1955) Bowman Gray Stadium (1956–1967) Truist Field at Wake Forest (1968–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Tobacco Road North Carolina NC State
Culture & lore	Demon Deacon The 5th Quarter
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896–1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

1968 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
NC State $	6	–	1	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Clemson	4	–	1	–	1	4	–	5	–	1
Virginia	3	–	2	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
South Carolina	4	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Duke	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Wake Forest	2	–	3	��	1	2	–	7	–	1
Maryland	2	–	5	–	0	2	–	8	–	0
North Carolina	1	–	6	–	0	3	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll^[1]