30 biggest college football scandals of all time, ranked

30 biggest college football scandals of all time

By Ethan Lee | Nov 4, 2019

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o (5) fights his emotions as he leaves the field after a 42-14 loss against Alabama in the BCS National Championship game at Sun Life Stadium on Monday, January 7, 2013, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) /

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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – OCTOBER 28: Wake Forest Demon Deacons head coach Dave Clawson watches his team play against the Louisville Cardinals on October 28, 2017 at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, NC. The Demon Deacons won 42-32. (Photo by Brian Utesch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

Wakeyleaks

Espionage. Spying on those you’re supposedly loyal to. Giving away secrets to your opponent. That’s what you’d expect from the bad guy in a mediocre spy movie, right? Well, when Louisville and Wake Forest met up, the college football world found out that it was getting its own version of that mediocre spy movie.

A former Wake Forest player turned former assistant coach who would go on to become a radio announcer for the Demon Deacons apparently had been giving away the Demon Deacons’ game plans to opponents.

Tommy Elrod played for Wake Forest. He coached for Wake Forest. The dude was broadcasting Wake Forest games on the radio. And he was also reportedly giving away secrets to opponents. All of this became public knowledge around the time of Louisville and Wake Forest meeting back in 2016. Elrod had reportedly been doing this since 2014.

Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson would shut off access to practices, which is completely and totally understandable. His team had to come up with a new game plan prior to that 2016 match up with Louisville. Elrod no longer works for Wake Forest.

While Elrod isn’t quite as bad as Benedict Arnold, turning on the team he played for, coached for, and broadcasted games for is pretty bad.

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