For Wake to win it all . . .

Thanks to Patrick, who sent me this link:

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2006/11/16/LaWELL.html

"So, what needs to happen? It's simple, really.

First, Grobe needs to lead the Demon Deacons to a win over Virginia Tech this weekend, then another next weekend at Maryland and one more in Jacksonville against the conference's Coastal Division champion, most likely Georgia Tech.

From there, the team needs just a pinch of luck. Are you ready? Take a deep breath.

For Wake Forest to have a shot at a national crown, California needs to beat Southern California in Los Angeles this weekend, then lose to Stanford next weekend; Auburn needs to lose at Alabama; Texas A&M needs to drop Texas on the road; either 1-9 Utah State or 7-3 Nevada needs to beat undefeated Boise State; Louisiana State needs to lose to both Mississippi and Arkansas; Louisville needs to lose to South Florida or Pittsburgh or Connecticut; Wisconsin needs to lose at home to mighty 2-8 Buffalo; and West Virginia needs to lose tonight at Pittsburgh or next week at South Florida, then beat Rutgers.

Whew.

OK, now for the rest of the mess.

Those same Scarlet Knights also need to lose at home to Syracuse, and Arkansas also needs to lose at Mississippi State; Army needs to beat Notre Dame, which then needs to beat Southern California; Florida needs to lose to Western Carolina and at Florida State; and, finally, the Trojans need to lose the aforementioned games to California and Notre Dame, then lose to UCLA, too.

Of course, if all that happens, Ohio State and Michigan will probably just meet again 53 days from now for the national championship – a rematch made in heaven for the midwest and pretty much nowhere else, including Winston-Salem, where big dreams still live.

'If we win,' Grobe told the Greensboro News & Record prior to Monday's practice, 'good things will happen to us.'"