Villanova vs. Wake Forest
Villanova and Wake Forest have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1952; the series is tied 2–2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2. Share
- Villanova wins
- 2
- Wake Forest wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1952
- Longest streak
- 1 Villanova
- Current streak
- 1 Wake Forest
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 1988
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 12 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Villanova
- 2–1 Villanova’s record at home
- At Wake Forest
- 1–0 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
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
1952 · Evening star, Oct 12, 1952
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 3, 1988 | Wake Forest 31, Villanova 11 | at Villanova | ||
| Oct 18, 1958 | Villanova 9, Wake Forest 7 | at Villanova | ||
| Oct 3, 1953 | Wake Forest 18, Villanova 12 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Oct 11, 1952 | 14Villanova 20, Wake Forest 0 | at Villanova |
Every game is listed as played on the field.