East Carolina vs. Wake Forest

East Carolina and Wake Forest have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1963; Wake Forest leads the series 6–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Wake Forest 6–⁠2, and Wake Forest has won the last 5.

Scheduled 2028 at Wake Forest. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

East Carolina wins
2
Wake Forest wins
6
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1963
Longest streak
5 Wake Forest
Current streak
5 Wake Forest
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 6–⁠2
Most recent
2005

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s1–⁠0
1970s0–⁠1
1990s1–⁠0
2000s0–⁠5
Average margin
7.9 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At East Carolina
2–⁠2 East Carolina’s record at home
At Wake Forest
4–⁠0 Wake Forest’s record at home

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. East Carolina’s biggest win1963: East Carolina 20, Wake Forest 10by 10 points
  2. Wake Forest’s biggest win2003: Wake Forest 34, East Carolina 16by 18 points
  3. Upset2001: Wake Forest 21, East Carolina 19Wake Forest had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1979: Wake Forest 23, East Carolina 20Wake Forest had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of East Carolina and Wake Forest, 1963 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Chris Barclay Wake Forest25 carries, 210 yards, 4 TD2005 Rushing
Aundrae Allison East Carolina8 catches, 158 yards, 2 TD2005 Receiving

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1963 game: East Carolina Upsets Deacs

    1963 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 22, 1963

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 17, 2005Wake Forest 44, East Carolina 34at Wake Forest
Sep 11, 2004Wake Forest 31, East Carolina 17at East Carolina
Sep 20, 2003Wake Forest 34, East Carolina 16at Wake Forest
Sep 7, 2002Wake Forest 27, East Carolina 22at Wake Forest
Sep 1, 2001Wake Forest 21, East Carolina 19at East Carolina
Sep 13, 1997East Carolina 25, Wake Forest 24at East Carolina
Sep 22, 1979Wake Forest 23, East Carolina 20at Wake Forest
Sep 21, 1963East Carolina 20, Wake Forest 10at East Carolina

Every game is listed as played on the field.