Virginia vs. Wake Forest

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

1. Virginia’s biggest win1991: Virginia 48, Wake Forest 7by 41 points
2. Wake Forest’s biggest win1975: Wake Forest 66, Virginia 21by 45 points
3. Upset1976: Virginia 18, Wake Forest 17Virginia had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2025: Wake Forest 16, Virginia 9Wake Forest had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1964: Wake Forest 31, Virginia 21Wake Forest had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Virginia’s side (Welsh 4–⁠1 against Groh). 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.

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  1911 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 5, 1911

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 7, 1956

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  1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 21, 1962

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Virginia vs. North Carolina120 meetings, Virginia 51–⁠65–⁠4
• Virginia vs. Virginia Tech101 meetings, Virginia 34–⁠62–⁠5
• Virginia vs. Maryland80 meetings, Virginia 32–⁠46–⁠2
• Virginia vs. VMI78 meetings, Virginia 53–⁠23–⁠2
• 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