2026
Week 6
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
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Main Poll Voters
| User | Rank | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Noelthemexican | 7 | |
| budget_um | 12 | Only loss to Miami gets them a good ranking |
| MADBuc49 | 12 | +5 |
| Muffinnnnnnn | 12 | |
| Blooblod | 15 | |
| bwburke94 | 15 | +8.6781937 (LW: #37) |
| Justanother_0 | 15 | Currently the most likely team to meet Miami in Charlotte. Given how Miami has done historically there I half expect Wake Forest to win the rematch should it happen. |
| ch1l1_ch33s3 | 16 | |
| A_Rolling_Baneling | 17 | |
| hascogrande | 17 | |
| HideNZeke | 17 | I said they were overrated last week but I guess I actually do like them. A piss pounding of a bad Stanford helps |
| jjjoebox | 17 | |
| MainPeanut25 | 17 | Time to respect them |
| SpadeRyker | 17 | |
| spasm01 | 17 | |
| Staind075 | 17 | |
| CFBHurts | 18 | |
| Corporal_Hicks | 18 | |
| cvsprinter1 | 18 | 1-loss to Undefeated |
| one98d | 18 | |
| owlalwaysloveyew | 18 | |
| srs_house | 18 | |
| BendrickLamar19 | 19 | |
| ehoefler | 19 | 77.31 | NEW +8 |
| infinitempg | 19 | +20, 0.850 |
| Laschoni | 19 | |
| retnuh101 | 19 | |
| sickmemes48 | 19 | |
| Striker743 | 19 | Up 1 |
| thescottula | 19 | |
| ALStark69 | 20 | +5; BTA |
| bretticus733 | 20 | |
| G-Aardvark | 20 | |
| Maladroit44 | 20 | On the one hand, Wake Forest's best win got substantially worse this week, as Louisville turned around and dropped to 2-3 against NC State. On the other hand, the Deacons' only loss to Miami is increasingly "good" (insofar as a loss can be), their close win over Purdue looks a little less embarrassing, and most importantly, they dismantled Stanford 57-3 behind a stellar day from Gio Lopez (265 passing yards and 2 passing TDs, 88 rushing yards and 3 rushing TDs). I'm still in on them. |
| MemeLovingLoser | 20 | Score 72.08 (▲ 4.04) | Place Change: ▲ 9 | Previous Rank: 29th | Wins Composite Rank: 17th | SoS Composite Rank: 15th | Margin of Victory Rank: 37th | Penalties Composite Rank: 134th | Yardage Composite Rank: 38th | Turnover Composite Rank: 56th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 38th | Other Stats Rank: 37th |
| mthompson2320 | 20 | LW: 42 |
| nbingham196 | 20 | |
| Rcfan0902 | 20 | 737.08 (+10) |
| skuhlke | 20 | |
| TimeBroken | 20 | |
| AlphaH4wk | 21 | |
| Bank_Gothic | 21 | Wake is great! I've wanted to rank them since the close loss to Miami and the wins over Louisville (close, but Louisville's not bad) and Stanford (murdered 'em) give me confidence that Wake Forest is a top-25 team. |
| BearsAreGreat1 | 21 | |
| BlueSCar | 21 | |
| Darth_Ra | 21 | |
| DarthYoda2594 | 21 | |
| EpicSchwinn | 21 | |
| fshi | 21 | |
| GenialGiant | 21 | |
| justsaynotoreddit | 21 | |
| Rakarei | 21 | |
| sirvalkyerie | 21 | |
| sroach91 | 21 | |
| TolkienFan71 | 21 | |
| xX_GIGA_MAN_Xx | 21 | (NEW) |
| eclectic_tastes | 22 | |
| fredmerc111 | 22 | |
| joebob431 | 22 | |
| KansasEF5Tornado | 22 | |
| Klaassy23 | 22 | |
| Luigiatl | 22 | |
| PlactusTX | 22 | LW: 15 | Tier 3 | W Wake Forest |
| ryseing | 22 | |
| smartkeg | 22 | |
| Sometimeswelose | 22 | |
| StFuzzySlippers | 22 | |
| TaylorLeprechaun | 22 | NR |
| TDenverFan | 22 | |
| tomdawg0022 | 22 | |
| 0010MK | 23 | |
| Blazeth | 23 | |
| Cars-and-Coffee | 23 | |
| CptCheese | 23 | |
| cyberchaox | 23 | The ACC just doesn't move the needle at all. Wake, Pitt, and Duke (who didn't even make it!) would definitely be higher up if they came from another conference. |
| daredassdude | 23 | |
| DarkLegend64 | 23 | |
| frone | 23 | |
| GatorBolt | 23 | |
| jrich960608 | 23 | |
| luckroy | 23 | |
| Pyromania1983 | 23 | |
| RedBarracuda25 | 23 | |
| redrumsoxLoL | 23 | |
| redwave2505 | 23 | |
| RJEP22 | 23 | |
| Texasagsman | 23 | |
| Tornadohunter24 | 23 | [4-1, 1-1 ACC] (-2) | SOR: #17 | Notable Results: W 38-36 (2OT) @ Purdue [2-3], L 20-33 vs #5 Miami [5-0], W 30-27 @ Louisville [2-3] | |
| VerySeriousBanana | 23 | |
| a_bit_of_a_misnomer_ | 24 | |
| aggiebruin27 | 24 | |
| AlexanderComet | 24 | |
| cornholesurfer | 24 | |
| IceColdDrPepper_Here | 24 | |
| jthomas694 | 24 | |
| monkeymatt1836 | 24 | |
| PattyKane16 | 24 | |
| Red261 | 24 | |
| samspopguy | 24 | |
| seaotter2 | 24 | |
| tdoger | 24 | |
| Techwid | 24 | |
| BallSoHerd | 25 | |
| bannista7 | 25 | |
| BorisNumber1 | 25 | |
| boxbeat | 25 | |
| COLU_BUS | 25 | |
| Conglossian | 25 | U/R |
| DavoinShower-handle | 25 | |
| flyingcircusdog | 25 | |
| GeauxTri | 25 | |
| ikindalikelemons | 25 | |
| JBonkies | 25 | |
| Keener1899 | 25 | |
| LiptonCB | 25 | |
| Longvols | 25 | |
| ManiacalBlazer | 25 | |
| nemoran | 25 | |
| NyquillusDillwad20 | 25 | |
| OldCoaly | 25 | |
| PSUMediaPA | 25 | |
| royrules22 | 25 | |
| SCsprinter13 | 25 | |
| SearonTrejorek | 25 | 0.69131 |
| texas2089 | 25 | |
| ToeInDigDeep | 25 | Loss to Miami FL.. Notable win:Louisville, Purdue, Stanford |
| TouchdownHeroes | 25 | |
| udubdavid | 25 |
Provisional Poll Voters
| User | Rank | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Esb5415 | 11 | |
| ArlyntheAwesome | 13 | Now THIS is ridiculous, don't even think they were in the top 30 last week but I've got them 13th. Their only loss is to my #2 team, and they've taken care of business against all of their other opponents that I have to respect them. I honestly hope they're legit cause the world where MissSt and Wake are conference contenders is a world I wanna live in. |
| isrealball | 13 | |
| JackWK_Gaming | 13 | |
| MyAngelMiraidon | 13 | +4 - Pretty much placed here due to the Miami game, and if they were lower, bye teams would just be getting rewarded even more, which seems wrong |
| NoOutdoorSoup | 13 | |
| kevinsdomain | 14 | |
| RJTrey | 15 | |
| g_trechel | 16 | |
| ianmcmoney | 16 | |
| alexjcode_com | 17 | 780 |
| Applesaucemannus | 17 | |
| myworld3 | 17 | |
| a_proud_ohioan | 18 | |
| buccaneerboy22 | 18 | |
| LonghornInNebraska | 18 | |
| MajikSix | 18 | |
| Mission_Pay_3373 | 18 | |
| TyRoland06 | 18 | |
| Yelich04 | 18 | ^2 |
| adi_red | 19 | |
| DillyDillySzn | 19 | |
| FoodCourtDruid | 19 | |
| FuzzyDunlop911 | 20 | |
| irishspring4521 | 20 | |
| SaguaroCactus19 | 20 | |
| _THE__BOULDER_ | 21 | Wake has been looking good out there, with their only loss being a not terrible loss to Miami. This week contained a beatdown over Stanford who, admittedly, is not great, but Wake's SOR is 17th according to ESPN and their SOS is 29th, so I think Wake firmly deserves to be ranked at this time. |
| bolts_win_again | 21 | |
| ChiTrojan2 | 21 | |
| divey043 | 21 | |
| fm22fnam | 21 | -7 |
| Isthmus11 | 21 | 4-1, crushed a pathetically bad Stanford team but I still think this is a team with everything to play for in the ACC especially since they do not play ND. |
| Noahsince2002 | 21 | |
| owl-bears | 21 | |
| SomerandomIDFBfan | 21 | |
| 2AcesRoth | 22 | net elo off def ridge fei conf +11.1 +14.0 36.4 22.4 +9.8 +9.5 ACC |
| _Junk_Rat_ | 22 | |
| Dawg-Bite | 22 | |
| DesignerClub1887 | 22 | |
| HereComesNightTime | 22 | |
| Intelligent_Fix_6972 | 22 | |
| mathwrath55 | 22 | Program is quite low on the ACC overall, with only two ranked teams. Pretty sure Wake needed every touchdown they got this week to jump in. Meanwhile, Pitt fell out because the program was so low on VT (who was #56 coming into the week) |
| Protoco2 | 22 | |
| Rhizical | 22 | |
| Signal_Tip_7428 | 22 | |
| BeyondLiesTheWub | 23 | change from last week: +20 |
| bruhstevenson | 23 | |
| gonshpreds1 | 23 | |
| kennethbring | 23 | |
| mr_longfellow_deeds | 23 | |
| NC_Pineapple | 23 | |
| NebraskaPlainsman | 23 | |
| Ok_Significance_3803 | 23 | |
| tdaten | 23 | |
| 69nicer | 24 | |
| drewscottt | 24 | NEW |
| dstrainr | 24 | |
| gohncell | 24 | They can beat every remaining teams in their schedule but @NC state will be thoughest |
| GrimmacingGrinny | 24 | |
| Key_Solution_4076 | 24 | |
| LegendParkour | 24 | |
| m3owzika | 24 | |
| maxwell6233 | 24 | |
| NNul | 24 | My ACC rankings are Mia > Pitt > WF > Lou > Duke > VT > SMU. |
| Perryapsis | 24 | |
| DownshiftGD | 25 | |
| Effective-Lead-6657 | 25 | |
| HHunko13 | 25 | |
| jackmc04 | 25 | (NR) |
| Kirkwood641 | 25 | |
| Minnesnowtaaa | 25 | |
| OG_Felwinter | 25 | |
| penix4heisman | 25 | |
| solarsnail6 | 25 | |
| sportstrap | 25 | |
| TomorrowFinal6642 | 25 | |
| WBLwiffleball | 25 | |
| wittingtarsier | 25 |
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