Wake Forest·ACC

2023 — The Correction

2023 is a losing-side chapter for Wake Forest. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 4-8
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -2.1 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Elon 37-17 W vs Vander 36-20 W @ Old Dom 27-24 L vs Geor Tec 16-30 L @ Clemson 12-17 L @ Virg Tec 13-30 W vs Pittsb 21-17 L vs FSU 16-41 L @ Duke 21-24 L vs NC State 6-26 L @ ND 7-45 L @ Syracuse 31-35

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2023.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2023 season's largest margin: Wake Forest 37, Elon 17. A 20-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Wake Forest 7, Notre Dame 45. A 38-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Deacs"
— Wake Forest fanbase voice · 2023· synthesized
What it meant

2023 sits in Wake Forest's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.