VMI vs. Wake Forest

VMI and Wake Forest have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1915; Wake Forest leads the series 4–⁠2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Wake Forest 4–⁠2, and Wake Forest has won the last 4.

VMI wins
2
Wake Forest wins
4
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1915
Longest streak
4 Wake Forest
Current streak
4 Wake Forest
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 4–⁠2
Most recent
2022

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
1930s0–⁠0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠3
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
21.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At VMI
2–⁠1–⁠1 VMI’s record at home
At Wake Forest
2–⁠0 Wake Forest’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 VMI first
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. VMI’s biggest win1921: VMI 20, Wake Forest 0by 20 points
  2. Wake Forest’s biggest win2022: Wake Forest 44, VMI 10by 34 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of VMI and Wake Forest, 1915 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 1915 game: PLAY HARD-FoUGHT GAME. Virginia Military Institute Defeats Wake Forest, 81 to 6.

    1915 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 7, 1915

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 1, 202222Wake Forest 44, VMI 10at Wake Forest
Oct 14, 194417Wake Forest 38, VMI 7Neutral site
Oct 23, 1943Wake Forest 21, VMI 0at VMI
Nov 7, 1942Wake Forest 28, VMI 0at Wake Forest
Nov 5, 1938VMI 6, Wake Forest 6at VMI
Oct 8, 1921VMI 20, Wake Forest 0at VMI
Nov 6, 1915VMI 21, Wake Forest 6at VMI

Every game is listed as played on the field.