A banking merger has led to a name change for the home of Wake Forest football.
Since 2007, the Wake Forest football stadium has gone by the name BB&T Field. In February of 2019, however, BB&T and SunTrust banks merged. Eventually, the company’s name was changed to Truist.
As such, Wake Forest announced this past week that, moving forward, its football home will be known as Truist Field.
“Wake Forest University is proud of its affiliation with the people of Truist and grateful for their longtime support of Demon Deacon student-athletes,” said Wake athletic director John Currie said in a statement. “As Truist continues its climb as one of America’s leading financial institutions, we are excited that the 21st century’s best college football program in North Carolina will now call Truist Field its home.”
The facility that now goes by the name of Truist Field was built in 1968. It has a seating capacity of 31,500, although the record attendance is 37,623 set in November of 2013. For that game against North Carolina, temporary bleachers were installed.
Wake is scheduled to open the 2020 college football season Sept. 4 at Old Dominion. They’ll face Appalachian State the following weekend in the home opener.
Wake Forest is coming off an 8-5 2019 campaign in Dave Clawson’s sixth season with the Demon Deacons. Wake has played in four straight bowl games for the first time in school history. Last April, Clawson signed a contract extension that would keep him at the ACC school through the 2026 season.
