Regular season ·

Wake Forest beat Virginia

Wake Forest6-316
No. 12 Virginia8-29Final
Sat, Nov 8 · Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, Va. · Crowd 55,568 · 56°, cloudyESPN

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

Wake Forest beat No. 12 Virginia by 7 points.

Virginia was No. 12 in the AP poll before the game; Wake Forest was not ranked.

How the game turned

Wake Forest aheadVirginia aheadBiggest swing
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Q2 1:33 Wake Forest 7, Virginia 6

Wake Forest 29% to win

Hernandez punt return TD, Wake Forest goes ahead 7-6

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 13:06 · Wake Forest 0, Virginia 0Wake Forest's win chance fell from 28% to 17%.Punt blocked
  2. 2Q1 11:48 · Wake Forest 0, Virginia 3Bettridge 34-yd field goal, Virginia goes ahead 3-0
  3. 3Q2 1:33 · Wake Forest 7, Virginia 6Wake Forest's win chance rose from 10% to 29%.Hernandez punt return TD, Wake Forest goes ahead 7-6
  4. 4Q3 5:42 · Wake Forest 10, Virginia 9Wake Forest's win chance rose from 36% to 46%.Kaelin sacked for a 5-yd loss, fumbles

Wake Forest's lowest chance to win was 10 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 1:33 left in the 2nd quarter, Wake Forest's chance to win went from 10 percent to 29 percent when Wake Forest scored a touchdown.

The score went from Wake Forest 0, Virginia 6 to Wake Forest 7, Virginia 6.

The play: Hernandez punt return TD, Wake Forest goes ahead 7-6.

What happened next

  1. Virginia went from No. 12 to No. 20 in the next AP poll.

  2. Wake Forest's next game: W 28-12 vs North Carolina, Nov 15

    7 days later

  3. Virginia's next game: W 34-17 at Duke, Nov 15

    7 days later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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