Wake Forest Football Schedule 2026

2026 results · Updated 2026-10-10

WAKE this season

Record

4-1 · 5 played

Points

183 scored · 115 allowed

Latest result

Oct 3 vs Stanford Cardinal · 57–3

Current / next fixture

Oct 17 at California Golden Bears

AP Top 25 · 2026-09-27

Unranked

Schedule guide · Reviewed 2026-10-11

Reading the Wake Forest schedule

Next matchup

Wake Forest plays next against California Golden Bears on Saturday, October 17, 2026, on the road. Kickoff is 10:30 PM EDT. TV coverage is TBD.

Home and away stretches

Wake Forest hosts Virginia and Merrimack before visiting SMU and Georgia Tech in successive fixtures. Duke then closes the list at home. Merrimack is the nonconference interruption before the final three ACC games.

This closing stretch runs from Sat, Oct 31 through Sat, Nov 28. Dates are shown in Eastern time; successive fixtures may have an open week between them.

What remains unannounced in our listings

• Sat, Oct 17 — at California Golden Bears: TV network TBD.
• Sat, Oct 31 — vs. Virginia Cavaliers: kickoff time, TV network TBD.
• Sat, Nov 7 — vs. Merrimack Warriors: kickoff time, TV network TBD.
• Sat, Nov 14 — at SMU Mustangs: kickoff time, TV network TBD.
• Sat, Nov 21 — at Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: kickoff time, TV network TBD.
• Sat, Nov 28 — vs. Duke Blue Devils: kickoff time, TV network TBD.

This guide interprets the published fixture list. Schedule data snapshot: 2026-10-10; results are recorded through October 9. New broadcaster selections and results may not yet be reflected here.

Confirmed finals through 2026-10-10

Team scoring

Record

4-1

Games played

5

Points scored

183

Points allowed

115

Points per game

36.6

Points allowed per game

23.0

Point differential

+68

These figures include only the confirmed final scores in the schedule above. Player yards and individual leaders are not included because those figures have not been sourced here.