Florida State vs. Wake Forest

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

1. Florida State’s biggest win1995: Florida State 72, Wake Forest 13by 59 points
2. Wake Forest’s biggest win2006: Wake Forest 30, Florida State 0by 30 points
3. Upset1959: Wake Forest 22, Florida State 20Wake Forest had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1973: Wake Forest 9, Florida State 7Wake Forest had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown2008: Wake Forest 12, Florida State 3No. 18 Wake Forest at No. 24 Florida State
6. Ranked showdown2022: Wake Forest 31, Florida State 21No. 22 Wake Forest at No. 23 Florida State

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Florida State’s side (Peterson 3–⁠0 against Tate). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 21, 1956

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Florida State vs. Miami71 meetings, Florida State 33–⁠38
• Florida State vs. Florida70 meetings, Florida State 29–⁠39–⁠2
• Florida State vs. NC State44 meetings, Florida State 27–⁠17
• Florida State vs. Virginia Tech39 meetings, Florida State 25–⁠13–⁠1
• Wake Forest vs. NC State119 meetings, Wake Forest 44–⁠70–⁠5
• Wake Forest vs. North Carolina107 meetings, Wake Forest 34–⁠71–⁠2
• Wake Forest vs. Duke102 meetings, Wake Forest 40–⁠60–⁠2
• Wake Forest vs. Clemson90 meetings, Wake Forest 17–⁠72–⁠1