I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree: you cannot make Wake Forest the favorite. In the team rankings, the gap between them (86-38) this season and Stanford (88-10) is as great as the gap between Wake and the number 16 team.
I do think Wake is the clear #2, with Texas, USC, UCLA and South Carolina strong but trailing.
Engleman hasn't been in peak form, but every team has at least one player of whom that's true. (Wake's number four ranks 141 in the country; Stanford's number five, Engleman, ranks 44th)
World Individual Rankings:
Wake 9, 45, 99, 141, 169.
Stanford 23, 44, 46, 72, and 80
Stanford beat an elite group in the Pac 12's by six strokes, and its regional by an absurd 18. Wake finished third in its regional.
We deserve to be the favorites-- conceding, however, that picking a favorite for five-player, 18 hole match play is a bet no one should make.
I do think Wake is the clear #2, with Texas, USC, UCLA and South Carolina strong but trailing.
Engleman hasn't been in peak form, but every team has at least one player of whom that's true. (Wake's number four ranks 141 in the country; Stanford's number five, Engleman, ranks 44th)
World Individual Rankings:
Wake 9, 45, 99, 141, 169.
Stanford 23, 44, 46, 72, and 80
Stanford beat an elite group in the Pac 12's by six strokes, and its regional by an absurd 18. Wake finished third in its regional.
We deserve to be the favorites-- conceding, however, that picking a favorite for five-player, 18 hole match play is a bet no one should make.