A.J. Styles?has been announced into the ring in recent weeks, by request, as the face that runs the place after his victory over?John Cena?at SummerSlam.?During his WWE world championship match with?Dean Ambrose?on Sunday night at WWE Backlash in Richmond, Virginia,?Styles set out to prove it. He ultimately did so, pinning Ambrose in a manner perfectly befitting the cowardly but talented heel he portrays.With so much time to work with at the end of the show, Styles and Ambrose took full advantage, slowly building up the pace of the match to accentuate the moments where they traded bursts of violence and energy -- making it clear this would be a long (timing out at 25:01) and intense battle. Each time Ambrose looked like he was taking control of the match, his comeback was short-circuited, and judging from the crowds reaction, it seemed as if they wanted Styles more often than not.Each stage of the match brought increasingly spectacular offense. An avalanche belly-to-back superplex began to turn the tide in Ambroses favor. He then caught Styles in a slick tilt-a-whirl backbreaker to gain further momentum.The crescendo of that sequence was a move not seen by WWE audiences in a long time -- a Chickenwing facebuster (once used by Beth Phoenix as the Glam Slam). WWE announcer Mauro Ranallo quickly pointed to its New Japan Pro Wrestling originator (two-time IWGP junior heavyweight champion and former?Finn Bálor?tag team partner) Ryusuke Taguchi to provide the context in tying it?back to Styles run in NJPW, and the move worked well in illustrating that Ambrose could bring out wild-looking offensive wrestling moves just as easily as Styles, if he so desired.While each wrestler connected on a series of high-intensity moves, save for their finishers, neither was able to hold onto control of the match for very long. Styles twice locked in his patented Calf Crusher and even hit a springboard 450 splash (a move that rarely connects), but even that garnered him only a two-count.Ambrose responded with his own stunning sequence. It started with a stiff double-leg drop kick as Styles hung between the middle and bottom ropes, followed by Ambroses trademark middle-rope dive to send Styles flying over the announce table. After throwing Styles headfirst into the crowd over the barrier, Ambrose ran across both tables and hit a flying double axe-handle off the barrier. This left Styles reeling, and as the pair slowly worked back toward the ring, the crowd raised their level of participation as the match wound toward its finish.The finale was a far different one from Styles classic showdown with Cena weeks earlier, but thats simply because the goal on this evening was not establishing Styles as the greatest wrestler in the company -- it was about making him the top guy by utilizing any means necessary as a heel.While the referee was briefly incapacitated, Styles connected on a low blow, a reprise of the ending of Tuesdays episode of SmackDown Live, and then finished off Ambrose with his finishing move, the Styles Clash.By claiming the WWE championship, Styles filled in one of the few gaps remaining in his illustrious in-ring career. 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Wake Forest was last bowl eligible in 2011, and the Demon Deacons could post an unbeaten nonconference record for the first time in a decade.The players, we talk about it among ourselves, defensive tackle Josh Banks said of bowl eligibility. But the coaches, we havent had the whole thing about the bowl. I guess because theres really no ceiling to what we have so far. ... Its kind of just realizing what we have at hand and what we possibly can do, beyond winning just six games.It would be a big leap for a program that was 3-9 in each of the past two seasons. Thats when Clawson started replenishing a thin roster with young players that would need time to develop, the kind of slow-build project in which its unclear how long it would take for consistent progresss to show.ddddddddddddThe offense still has some up-and-down moments and averages just 21.7 points per game (111th the Bowl Subdivision ranks) but the defense is allowing just 17.9 points to keep the Demon Deacons hanging around in games.While Clawson said the bye week gave the team time to heal, its unclear whether sophomore quarterback Kendall Hinton will be ready to return from a four-game absence due to a knee injury.Hintons mobility makes him a threat to scramble for a big play, which could help loosen things up for an offense that has to work for its production. Clawson said Hinton is making progress, but he said he would probably end up starting junior John Wolford -- who has six starts this season.This weeks depth chart lists an or between Wolford and Hinton for the starting job Saturday.Every day is a new day, Clawson said of Hintons recovery. So Friday he looked good and Sunday he didnt look good. And then kind of the more he goes, the better he goes. So with giving Monday off, today he didnt look as good to start but then he looked better at the end. So its kind of wait and see.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap and the APs college football site at http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '