Baldwin Wallace

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Ohio · George Finnie Stadium · 7,800

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetvs Alma · our model 65% Baldwin Wallace · a number, not a pick

LastW 84–26 vs Bethany (WV) · Sat Sep 12

Nextvs Alma · Sat Sep 19 · 12 pm ET · George Finnie Stadium · first meeting on record

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Baldwin Wallace · 2026 schedule & results1-0
WkDateUsOppLineOpponentResultRecordConf
2Sep 12#505#647Bethany (WV)W 84–261-00-0
3Sep 19#513#458Alma
4Sep 26#511#598Capital
5Oct 3@Heidelberg
6Oct 10Ohio Northern
7Oct 17@Marietta
8Oct 24Otterbein
9Oct 31@Wilmington (OH)
10Nov 7@Mount Union
11Nov 14Muskingum

Game Week

4d 16h

until kickoff · vs Alma · Sat Sep 19 · 12 pm ET

Verdict Begins·Live

Baldwin Wallace is the OAC power trying to dethrone Mount Union — a Yellow Jackets program that finished third last season and is hungry for the championship that keeps slipping away.

Title DroughtSince 2016 · 10 yrs

Mount Union is not a blue blood, but they function like one in Division III. Baldwin Wallace has the talent to compete, but the narrative always writes Mount Union as inevitable.

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The season in chapters

What it is like to watch them2025 · 8-2 · last season

Game feel62even gamescombined pts / game4th highest-scoring of 10 in the Ohio
Heart rate2-1some dramain one-score games (3 of 10)7th most one-score games of 10 in the Ohio
Margin+19.8competitiveavg scoring margin3rd best margin of 10 in the Ohio

✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among Ohio teams the same season

Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025

Baldwin Wallace has won four of its last five.

Warming. 8-2 over the last 10, and won the last two.

Streak W2Last 5 · 4-1Last 10 · 8-2
The forecast

Next Sep 19

vs Alma · at home

Outcome band · Baldwin Wallace · 2026

Baldwin Wallace's most likely season is 1-11 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 4-8.

Floor0-12Rebuild year. Below .500.
Base1-11Mid-table finish.
Ceiling4-8Conference title race. Bracket qualifier in range.

No season-path projection for this program yet, so this is last season's record with a two-win swing down and a three-win swing up, over a 12-game frame.

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Game dayWhat a Saturday in this stadium actually feels like.
The experience

Baldwin Wallace is the OAC power trying to dethrone Mount Union — a Yellow Jackets program that finished third last season and is hungry for the championship that keeps slipping away.

Playoff pathWhere this team sits in the D3 bracket race.
DIVISION III · THE PATH TO THE STAGG BOWL

Baldwin Wallace sits 5th in the Ohio Conference and 27th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — inside the projected 40-team field on the at-large math.

Ohio · 2026
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Capital1-02-071.4
2Heidelberg1-02-062.4
3Ohio Northern1-01-156.6
4John Carroll0-02-074.6
5Baldwin Wallace0-01-067.5
6Wilmington (OH)0-11-160.1
7Mount Union0-01-149.0
8Marietta0-11-143.9
67.5 CFB Zeitgeist#27 of 229 D352.5 strength of schedule

Win the Ohio Conference for the automatic berth into the 40-team NCAA Division III bracket. Miss it and the path is an at-large bid, selected by NPI — the metric the CFB Index mirrors. Six wins survive the bracket to the Stagg Bowl.

Source: CFB Zeitgeist — conference records + NPI-style rating from 2026 games · the field is 40 teams, NPI-selected
Recruiting buzzWhat fans say about the incoming class right now.

Community pulse

No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.

CFB Zeitgeist · team-pages synth v1.0 “Go Yellow Jackets.”
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