Georgetown vs. Wake Forest

Georgetown and Wake Forest have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1946; Wake Forest leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Wake Forest 2–⁠1.

Georgetown wins
1
Wake Forest wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1946
Longest streak
2 Wake Forest
Current streak
1 Georgetown
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 2–⁠1
Most recent
1949

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠2
Average margin
8.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgetown
0–⁠1 Georgetown’s record at home
At Wake Forest
1–⁠1 Wake Forest’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Georgetown and Wake Forest, 1946 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1947 game: 6. w. Finally Breaks q Jinx Co|Ieqe Football Results

    1947 · Evening star, Sep 28, 1947

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

Oct 8, 1949Georgetown 12, Wake Forest 6at Wake Forest
Sep 27, 1947Wake Forest 6, Georgetown 0at Wake Forest
Oct 4, 1946Wake Forest 19, Georgetown 6at Georgetown

Every game is listed as played on the field.