The College of Wooster football team (3-3, 2-2 North Coast Athletic Conference) travels to Ohio Wesleyan University (1-4, 0-3 NCAC) this week. Kickoff at historic Selby Stadium is set for 1 p.m. Wooster is coming off a 28-7 loss to Denison University (3-2, 2-1 NCAC), while Ohio Wesleyan fell 35-20 to Wabash College (5-1, 3-1 NCAC) on Saturday.

On The Air: Ohio Wesleyan will produce a livestream of this Saturday's game. The link to view it is https://northcoastnetwork.com/ohiowesleyan.

All-Time Series: Ohio Wesleyan leads the all-time series 36-32. Ohio Wesleyan won the first all-time meeting 28-0 on Oct. 5, 1901, in what marked Wooster's first game since 1890 due to a campus ban on intercollegiate athletics. Wooster's most recent win in the series was a 16-14 victory on Nov. 2, 2019. Then-first-year Lake Barrett drilled a go-ahead 25-yard field goal with :42 remaining, and then-first-year Dorion Talley secured the victory by recovering a fumble after Barrett's squib kick deflected off the Battling Bishops' Braydon Chitty.

Last Meeting: Wooster's third-quarter spark was not enough, as Ohio Wesleyan played spoiler, 34-22, on Homecoming for Alumni and Families Weekend, which took place on Oct. 19, 2024. Wooster's defense held strong at the onset, forcing five straight punts to start the game. However, a late second-quarter pass interference call, and a blocked field goal that was returned 67 yards for a touchdown by Grant Johnson were the sparks the Battling Bishops needed to go on to the win.

Offense Notes: Senior Tate Journell (Northfield, Minn./Northfield) is 20th nationally and third within the NCAC with 552 receiving yards on the year. Journell's 552 yards receiving are a career-high and he is 36 shy of 1,000 yards for his career. Journell is looking to become the 24th player in program history with 1,000 career receiving yards. Junior Michael Boyle (Pennsburg, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) needs three passing touchdowns for a top-10 spot in the program annals for most in a season. Boyle is second in the NCAC with 1,512 passing yards, four fewer than John Carroll University's Nick Semptimphelter. Sophomore Cam Crago (Mansfield, Ohio/Lexington) leads the NCAC with 19.5 yards per reception. Wooster's offensive line is tops in the NCAC in sacks allowed, as Boyle has been sacked just seven times this fall. Wooster's current starters on the offensive line are sophomore left tackle Henry Ringenbach (Pepper Pike, Ohio/Orange), sophomore left guard Zay Wilkins (Hudson, Ohio/Twinsburg), senior center Michael Kennedy (Akron, Ohio/Firestone Community Learning Center), first-year right guard Andrew Flesher (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville), and first-year right tackle Nate Chapman (Berea, Ohio/Columbia), who are all first-year starters.

Defense Notes: Sophomore defensive back Charlie Scoggin (Midway, Ky./Sayre School) became the first Wooster player with multiple interceptions this fall. Senior defensive back Brock Sivon (Perry, Ohio/Perry) moved into first on the team with 48 tackles. Sivon is fifth in the NCAC in tackles. Wooster ranks fourth within the NCAC in total defense. The Scots are allowing just 327.5 yards per game. Wooster last finished the year allowing fewer than 400 yards per game in 2019.

Special Teams Notes: Sivon had Wooster's first blocked kick of the year when he got a piece of Denison's first punt of the game. 

This and That: Wooster defensive coordinator Mason Tomblin is an Ohio Wesleyan alumnus. Tomblin earned honorable mention All-NCAC honors as a linebacker and was OWU's nominee for the National Football Foundation William V. Campbell Trophy as a senior. As a senior, Tomblin had 57 tackles, 8.5 tackles-for-loss, and three sacks.