The ACC has put a time and TV window on Wake Forest’s Week 5 meeting with Stanford, and the Demon Deacons will get an early start at home.
Wake Forest is set to host the Cardinal on Saturday, October 3, with kickoff scheduled for 12 p.m. ET at Allegacy Financial Stadium. The game will air on The ACC Network.
It will be the fourth all-time matchup between the schools and their second meeting as ACC opponents. Wake Forest owns the edge in the series, 2-1.
The Deacs won the first meeting in Winston-Salem in 2009, taking a 24-17 decision. Stanford answered the next year in Palo Alto with a 68-24 win.
Then in 2024, Stanford’s first season in the ACC, Wake Forest went to Palo Alto and came away with a 27-24 victory.
Stanford heads into the Week 5 trip to Winston-Salem with a 1-2 record, and the losses have come against conference teams. The Cardinal opened the year with a Week 0 home win over Hawaii, 37-27, but things have tightened up badly since then.
Stanford fell 45-6 to then-No. 7 Miami in Week 2, then lost 35-7 at Duke last week in its first trip to North Carolina.
Before the matchup with Wake Forest, Stanford will host Georgia Tech on Saturday, September 26. Georgia Tech is also 1-2, with all three of its games coming outside conference play.
Stanford’s rough start landed it at the bottom of last week’s ACC Football Power Rankings, as compiled by the Wake Forest Demon Deacons On SI editorial staff. This week’s rankings are still being sorted out, but all signs point toward another finish in last place.
Wake Forest’s schedule also includes a road trip before Stanford arrives. The Demon Deacons travel to Louisville to face the No.
16 Cardinals on Saturday, September 26, with kickoff set for 12 p.m. ET on ESPN.
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