Wake Forest moves Notre Dame matchup to Charlotte
Wake Forest’s home football game against Notre Dame slated for the 2027 season will instead be played in Charlotte.
Wake Forest and the Charlotte Sports Foundation both announced Monday morning that the Deacons and Irish will play at Bank of America Stadium on Oct. 9, 2027. It will be a Duke’s Mayo Classic game.
“Charlotte is an ACC town, and Wake Forest has the largest and most significant academic footprint of any conference institution in the Queen City,” Wake Forest athletics director John Currie said through a news release. “With our campus just 82 miles from Bank of America Stadium, the 2027 Duke’s Mayo Classic against Notre Dame is a tremendous opportunity to elevate Wake Forest’s presence and celebrate with incredible alumni, fans, and partners across the region.”
Wake Forest has not played at Bank of America Stadium since the ACC championship game in 2021. The Deacons have lost their last two games in that stadium, having lost the Duke’s Mayo Bowl to Wisconsin to end the 2020 season.
The game was slated to be a Wake Forest home game. Wake’s other three non-conference games that season will be home games against Campbell and Tulane, and a game at East Carolina.
Wake’s home ACC games that season will be the same as the upcoming one — against UNC, N.C. State, SMU and Georgia Tech. Its road ACC games in 2027 will be at Duke, Clemson, Boston College and Louisville.
Wake Forest is 0-6 against Notre Dame. The average margin of victory has been 24 points; the only game decided by single digits was a 24-17 game in the first ever meeting, on Nov. 11, 2011.
Wake’s last game against Notre Dame was a 45-7 loss in South Bend. That was former quarterback Sam Hartman’s “senior day,” the former Deacon having transferred to Notre Dame after spending five seasons at Wake Forest.
Notre Dame’s last trip to Winston-Salem was a 56-27 win early in the 2018 season. Attendance for that game was 31,092; Bank of America Stadium has a listed attendance just under 75,000.
