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. Share
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
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–5 |
- 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
- East Carolina’s biggest win1963: East Carolina 20, Wake Forest 10by 10 points
- Wake Forest’s biggest win2003: Wake Forest 34, East Carolina 16by 18 points
- Upset2001: Wake Forest 21, East Carolina 19Wake Forest had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1979: Wake Forest 23, East Carolina 20Wake Forest had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
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 Forest | 25 carries, 210 yards, 4 TD | 2005 Rushing | |
| Aundrae Allison East Carolina | 8 catches, 158 yards, 2 TD | 2005 Receiving |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers

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, 2005 | Wake Forest 44, East Carolina 34 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Sep 11, 2004 | Wake Forest 31, East Carolina 17 | at East Carolina | ||
| Sep 20, 2003 | Wake Forest 34, East Carolina 16 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Sep 7, 2002 | Wake Forest 27, East Carolina 22 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Sep 1, 2001 | Wake Forest 21, East Carolina 19 | at East Carolina | ||
| Sep 13, 1997 | East Carolina 25, Wake Forest 24 | at East Carolina | ||
| Sep 22, 1979 | Wake Forest 23, East Carolina 20 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Sep 21, 1963 | East Carolina 20, Wake Forest 10 | at East Carolina |
Every game is listed as played on the field.