The College of Wooster football team (5-4, 4-3 North Coast Athletic Conference) plays its final game of the regular season on Saturday, when the Fighting Scots visit 15th-ranked DePauw University (7-1, 5-1 NCAC) for a 1 p.m. contest. Wooster routed Kenyon College (1-7, 1-5 NCAC) 49-6 last week, while DePauw quickly dispatched Ohio Wesleyan University (2-6, 1-5 NCAC) 40-10.

On The Air: DePauw will produce a stream and it can be viewed at https://northcoastnetwork.com/depauw.

All-Time Series: DePauw leads the all-time series, which dates back to 1975, 11-3. The Tigers have won the last five counting contests in the series. Wooster's last win in the series was a 24-21 victory in 2018. In that contest, then-first-year Mateo Renteria electrified the team with 388 yards passing in his first collegiate start, and Wooster's defense protected a three-point lead with an interception and fourth-down stop down the stretch.

Last Meeting: Wooster opened NCAC play in 2024 at DePauw, where the Tigers won 51-14 at Blackstock Stadium. Alumnus Brazos Gadler was a bright spot for Wooster, logging 130 receiving yards on five receptions with a touchdown in the game. Defensively, Wooster was led by eight tackles from then-junior Wyatt Wilkie (Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville North).

Offense Notes: Wooster junior quarterback Michael Boyle (Pennsburg, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) matched Renteria's single-game program record with six passing touchdowns in the win against Kenyon. Boyle's 430 yards against Kenyon marked the fifth-most in single-game program history and are the most since Renteria's 462 against Wittenberg University in 2021. Boyle went over 2,000 passing yards for the season against Kenyon, and he enters the week with 2,286 yards, the fifth-most in program history. Boyle's 24 passing touchdowns are the third-most, trailing the 33 alumnus Gary Muntean threw in 2017 and Renteria's 29 from 2021. Senior Tate Journell (Northfield, Minn./Northfield) now has 11 receiving touchdowns. With Gadler's 12 last year, Wooster has a player with at least 10 receiving touchdowns in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history. Journell needs 53 yards receiving to post a top-10 single-season total. Wooster had three passing touchdowns of at least 55 yards in Saturday's win over Kenyon.

Defense Notes: Senior Louie Lindsay's (Waynesboro, Pa./Waynesboro Area Senior) 73-yard pick-six, marked the program's first interception returned for a touchdown since alumnus Neil Clayton ran one back 25 yards against Kenyon in 2023. Lindsay is still among the national leaders in passes defended per game, entering the week 12th nationally. Should senior Brock Sivon (Perry, Ohio/Perry) have at least 15 tackles on Saturday, he would become the first Scot with 100 tackles in a season since alumnus Matt Ulishney had 103 in 2022. Prior to Ulishney, alumnus Mitchell Czerniak was the last Scot to have 100 tackles in a season, with his 125 in 2014. If Wooster can keep DePauw to under 592 yards of offense, the Scots will finish the regular season allowing under 400 yards of offense per game for the first time since 2019, when the opposition had just 343.3 yards of offense per Saturday.

Special Teams Notes: Lindsay is averaging 14 yards over eight punt returns on the season. His 101 kickoff return yards are second on the team, trailing first-year Jojo Hair's (Columbus, Ohio/Canal Winchester) 177. First-year Nolan Hendricks (Massillon, Ohio/Massillon Washington) booted a 59-yard punt against Kenyon for his second game with a 50-plus yard punt this fall.

This and That: Wooster has two players on the team from Indiana. Senior linebacker Braydon Hudson is from North Liberty and played high school ball at Washington High School. First-year quarterback Damon Hooks is from Indianapolis and played at Arsenal Technical High School.