The N&R’s Rob Daniels on Wake Forest’s 38-24 win over Maryland:

Word association time: Wake Forest football and the Atlantic. The obvious suspects are concepts like “Titanic” or “sunken” or “buried.”

But now you must add a new one: champion.

But don’t raise the flag yet. For starters, Wake is only the Atlantic division winner, which doesn’t qualify the Deacs as “champions” in my book. And take a close look at Daniels’ “crystal bowl” in yesterday’s print edition. He’s got Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl.