Wake Forest won 38-36 to make the all-time series 4-2 in Purdue's favor. Wake Forest ended a 23-year gap by two points. Watch Wake Forest vs Purdue highlights on FOX Sports or stream on FOX One. The sixth meeting, and the fifth in West Lafayette, came from Ross-Ade Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT in Week 2 of the 2026 college football season.

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Purdue thought it had won. Carlos Hernandez was originally ruled short on fourth-and-15 in the second overtime, the call was overturned on review, and two plays later Gio Lopez ran in a 3-yard touchdown and then the two-point conversion that decided it. Lopez went 16-of-27 for 225 yards and a touchdown and ran for 59 yards and two scores.

Hernandez caught six for 88, including that 15-yard fourth-down reception. Wake Forest led 23-13 with 9:13 left in regulation before Fame Ijeboi's 7-yard run cut it to 23-20 and Jacobo Echeverria Lozano's 20-yard field goal on the final play of the fourth forced overtime. Ijeboi ran for 114 yards and three touchdowns, the last a 3-yarder that put Purdue up 36-30 in the second overtime before its two-point try failed. Ryan Browne was 32-of-43 for a career-high 329 yards. Wake Forest had three sacks and eight tackles for loss, with Aiden Hall and Vincent Firenze each posting 11 tackles.

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Friday, Sept. 18, 2026
Week 3 — Watch Houston vs Texas Tech — 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT
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Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026
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FOX + ESPN College Football Schedule 2026 — Week 2

Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
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Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026
Week 2 — Watch Oklahoma vs Michigan — 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT
Week 2 — Watch Wake Forest vs Purdue — 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT
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Week 2 — Watch Louisiana vs USC — 11:00 p.m. ET / 8:00 p.m. PT

Purdue leads this series 4-2 across six meetings, none of them a bowl game. The first was Oct. 19, 1968, a 28-27 Purdue win in West Lafayette, followed by 26-17 in 1977 and 14-7 in 1978. Wake Forest's first win came on Sept. 21, 2002, a 24-21 result, also at Ross-Ade.

Purdue took the next one 16-10 on Sept. 13, 2003 at Groves Stadium in Winston-Salem, against a Wake Forest team ranked 20th at the time. Then came a 23-year gap, ended by Wake Forest's 38-36 double-overtime win at Ross-Ade on Sept. 12, 2026. That makes five of the six meetings in West Lafayette, with the return trip to Winston-Salem set for 2027, and both Wake Forest wins have come at Ross-Ade.