The Wake Forest class is expected to be ranked near the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but that is nothing new.

The Deacons have gone to a BCS bowl and won an Atlantic Coast Conference championship with classes that were never ranked higher than 10th.

Wide receiver Michael Campanaro is typical of the players that have helped Wake Forest develop a winning program.

Duke’s incoming class should help the Blue Devils get quicker in a hurry.

The 40 times submitted by players or from various combines aren’t a very good way to compare speed, but the incoming group seems to have several players in the skilled positions with enough speed to make the Blue Devils quicker.

North Carolina has assembled one of the top recruiting classes in the country.

Scout.com has the UNC class ranked No. 3 in the country behind Ohio State and LSU. Rivals.com puts the UNC class in its No. 6 slot.

The Tar Heels were particularly effective in North Carolina.

N.C. State’s class won’t win many national accolades, but Coach Tom O’Brien has won a lot of football games with similar players.

“Go back and look at his Boston College days,” said Mike Farrell, a rivals.com analyst. “He never had a recruiting class that really wowed a lot of people.

“But all those players did was win eight or nine games a year and win every bowl game they played.

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