Wake Forest’s 2026 schedule released by ACC
Wake Forest’s first ACC game of the upcoming football season will be a Friday night game against the team that lost in the national championship game last week.
The Deacons play host to Miami for a game on Sept. 18. The ACC released the football schedule on Monday evening.
For the first time, Wake Forest has nine ACC games. The league is moving to a new scheduling model. The Deacons play five ACC road games and four at home.
Wake Forest is coming off a 9-4 season. It was a surprisingly impressive debut for Jake Dickert, who came to Winston-Salem from Washington State and reenergized the program after back-to-back 4-8 years.
There is one important disclaimer to note with Monday’s release: The ACC will have additional releases in the following three days that could change some of these dates. On Wednesday, the ACC will lay out games across five days for the opening weekend of the season. On Thursday, the ACC will announce which games will be played on Thursday and Friday nights.
Here is Wake’s full schedule:
Sept. 3 – Akron (Thursday)
Sept. 12 – at Purdue
Sept. 18 – Miami (Friday)
Sept. 26 – at Louisville
Oct. 3 – Stanford
Oct. 10 – at N.C. State
Oct. 17 – at California
Oct. 24 – OFF
Oct. 31 – Virginia
Nov. 7 – Merrimack
Nov. 14 – at SMU
Nov. 21 – at Georgia Tech
Nov. 28 – Duke
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