Marshall vs. Wake Forest

Marshall and Wake Forest have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1939; Wake Forest leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Wake Forest 2–⁠1.

Marshall wins
1
Wake Forest wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1939
Longest streak
2 Wake Forest
Current streak
1 Marshall
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 2–⁠1
Most recent
1941

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s1–⁠1
Average margin
7.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Marshall
1–⁠1 Marshall’s record at home
At Wake Forest
1–⁠0 Wake Forest’s record at home

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 Marshall and Wake Forest, 1939 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 1941 game: MarshaII's Last-HaIf Rally Brings 1915 Upset Of Deacons

    1941 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 2, 1941

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

Nov 1, 1941Marshall 16, Wake Forest 6at Marshall
Oct 19, 1940Wake Forest 31, Marshall 19at Wake Forest
Nov 4, 1939Wake Forest 14, Marshall 13at Marshall

Every game is listed as played on the field.