The 2005 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth season under head coach Jim Grobe, the Demon Deacons compiled a 4–7 record and finished in fourth place in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	7:00 pm	Vanderbilt*	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	ESPNU	L 20–24	25,384
September 10	7:00 pm	at Nebraska*	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE	TBS	L 3–31	77,380
September 17	6:30 pm	East Carolina*	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC		W 44–34	29,563
September 24	3:30 pm	Maryland	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	ESPNU	L 12–22	26,022
October 1	3:30 pm	Clemson	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	ESPNU	W 31–27	32,153
October 8	12:00 pm	at No. 4 Florida State	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	JPS	L 24–41	82,589
October 15	12:00 pm	at No. 14 Boston College	Alumni Stadium Chestnut Hill, MA	JPS	L 30–35	33,632
October 22	3:30 pm	NC State	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)		W 27–19	33,316
October 29	12:00 pm	at Duke	Wallace Wade Stadium Durham, NC (rivalry)	JPS	W 44–6	15,347
November 5	1:30 pm	at Georgia Tech	Bobby Dodd Stadium Atlanta, GA		L 17–30	51,571
November 12	3:30 pm	No. 3 Miami (FL)	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	ABC	L 17–47	27,106
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

Team leaders