Concordia-Wisconsin9-2
Verdict Begins·Offseason

The Falcons of Mequon, Wisconsin, a Lutheran university that broke through as 2025 NACC champions and hosted the program's first home NCAA Division III playoff game — small-school football arriving on the lakeshore.

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Concordia just won the NACC and hosted a home playoff game, and still has to prove it can hang with Division III's established powers.

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The Falcons bide their time.

Concordia-Wisconsin · Next-Season Outcome Band

Floor / Base / Ceiling

floor7-5Competitive but likely outside bracket contention.
base9-3Conference title contender. Bracket bid realistic.
ceiling12-0Deep playoff run. Program-defining year.

Variance assumed at ±2 wins from last-season record. Replace with the season-path projection once preview data is built.

Recent Form · last 10 games

Warming

Four of five. The board favors this trend.

Streak L1Last 5 · 4-1Last 10 · 8-2
The forecast

Opens Sep 5

vs Ripon · away

Game Week

9 days

until kickoff · at Ripon · Sat Sep 5 · 18:00 UTC

The experience

The Falcons of Mequon, Wisconsin, a Lutheran university that broke through as 2025 NACC champions and hosted the program's first home NCAA Division III playoff game — small-school football arriving on the lakeshore.

DIVISION III · THE PATH TO THE STAGG BOWL

Concordia-Wisconsin sits 1st in the NACC and 31st of 240 in the CFB Zeitgeist — inside the projected 40-team field on the at-large math.

NACC · 2025
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Concordia (WI)8-09-263.5
2Aurora6-28-360.0
3Benedictine (IL)5-37-355.0
4St. Norbert5-35-549.8
5Wisconsin Lutheran5-35-548.9
6Lakeland4-44-644.5
7Concordia Chicago2-64-643.7
8Eureka1-72-836.6
63.5 CFB Zeitgeist#31 of 240 D348.1 strength of schedule2 quality wins

Win the NACC 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 2025 games · the field is 40 teams, NPI-selected
THE 2025 SEASON · 9-2
W 27-8 at Thiel · Wk 2+19ThielL 7-34 at Calvin · Wk 3-27CalvinW 27-20 at Wisconsin Lutheran · Wk 4+7WisconsiW 28-20 vs Benedictine (IL) · Wk 5+8BenedictW 24-17 at St. Norbert · Wk 6+7St. NorbW 41-34 vs Lakeland · Wk 7+7LakelandW 54-45 at Aurora · Wk 8+9AuroraW 47-20 at Concordia Chicago · Wk 9+27ConcordiW 35-0 vs Rockford · Wk 10+35RockfordW 35-0 vs Eureka · Wk 12+35EurekaL 7-44 vs Coe · Wk 13-37Coe

Signature win 35-0 over Rockford; toughest day 7-44 against Coe.

Community pulse

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

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