The ninth game of the 2018 Syracuse Orange Campaign is against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
Once again I have to address the elephant in the room… what in the heck is a Demon Deacon?!?
“It turns out that Wake Forest was originally founded as a Baptist college. In 1923, the Wake Forest football team defeated rival Trinity (later renamed Duke University). In the following issue of the school newspaper, the editor of the paper, Mayon Parker (1924 Wake Forest graduate), first referred to the team as “Demon Deacons,” in recognition of what he called their “devilish” play and fighting spirit.