ACC · Jake Dickert, year 2 (11-4) · Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium · 31,500 · 30,735 avg in 2026
LastW 38–36 at Purdue · Sat Sep 12 · Giovanni Lopez 225 pass yds, 1 TD, 59 rush yds
Nextvs Miami · Fri Sep 18 · 7:30 pm ET · Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium · Miami by 21 · series 3-9, lost the last 8 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
Jake Dickert's year 2 (2026): 2-0, behind Dave Clawson's 3-9 in the same spot.
2Jake Dickert's first season at Wake Forest begins with a 9-4 record, but the program's identity shift and uneasy fanbase signal untested challenges for a coach inheriting a middle-tier P5 school.
What moved it — last 14 days
Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling
Every cohort from the die-hards to the analytics crowd lands within 0.01 of each other — a rare consensus. The loudest voice in the room:
Recap: Wake Forest Outlasts Purdue 38-36 in 2OT
bloggersodear.com →Not as dumb as halftime interviews. I have never seen an interesting one in a big game
The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.
Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.
Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.
~ our readWake Forest fans are down on the program, but it's more feel than fact right now.
✓ counted We read 132 posts from Wake Forest fans this week.
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What people are saying right now
Fanbase health · Wake Forest
Audible (20 weighted voices in the latest week) and winning on the field (9-4 last season, 2-0 so far).
2 of 3 signals · on-field reading uses last season until 4 games are in · 0–100, bands at 26 / 51 / 76
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Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
Wake Forest won 9 games last year! It seemed like nobody talked about it, but Jake Dickert's debut was a huge success.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Aug 11, 2026 · via wfu
Fanbase health · Wake Forest