RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Ron Wellman was never so happy to see the Wake Forest campus covered in toilet paper.
The Demon Deacons had just defeated Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, and the students revived the school's time-honored tradition of ``rolling'' the campus quad by smothering the trees and grass with toilet tissue.
``It looked like a blizzard,'' the Wake Forest athletic director said Monday. ``Not a blade of grass to be seen.''
There are plenty of reasons for Wellman to celebrate. The 15th-ranked Demon Deacons (11-2) won the ACC for the first time since 1970 and capped a remarkable worst-to-first regular season with an invitation to play No. 5 Louisville (11-1) in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 2 - just the seventh bowl in school history and its first January bowl since 1949.
It's a huge achievement for the private university in Winston-Salem ranks among the smallest schools in Division I-A with just more than 4,000 undergraduates.
The relatively small number of alumni has always made it difficult for the school to build a fan base, but Wellman hopes the school can sell its allotment of 17,500 bowl tickets.
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Wake Forest AD celebrates football success for a change
Wake Forest AD celebrates football success for a change
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