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.
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.
The Falcons bide their time.
Concordia-Wisconsin · Next-Season Outcome Band
Floor / Base / Ceiling
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.
Opens Sep 5
vs Ripon · away
Game Week
9 days
until kickoff · at Ripon · Sat Sep 5 · 18:00 UTC
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.
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.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Concordia (WI) | 8-0 | 9-2 | 63.5 |
| 2 | Aurora | 6-2 | 8-3 | 60.0 |
| 3 | Benedictine (IL) | 5-3 | 7-3 | 55.0 |
| 4 | St. Norbert | 5-3 | 5-5 | 49.8 |
| 5 | Wisconsin Lutheran | 5-3 | 5-5 | 48.9 |
| 6 | Lakeland | 4-4 | 4-6 | 44.5 |
| 7 | Concordia Chicago | 2-6 | 4-6 | 43.7 |
| 8 | Eureka | 1-7 | 2-8 | 36.6 |
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.
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.
The Pulse on Concordia-Wisconsin
What moved it — fall camp · last 14 days
No player stats logged for this program yet — stats appear once the season is underway.
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sep 5 | — | — | — | @Thiel | W 27–8 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 13 | #536 | #586 | — | @Calvin | L 7–34 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Sep 20 | #555 | #593 | — | @Wisconsin Lutheran | W 27–20 | 2-1 | 1-0 |
| 5 | Sep 27 | #560 | #532 | — | Benedictine (IL) | W 28–20 | 3-1 | 2-0 |
| 6 | Oct 4 | #550 | #544 | — | @St. Norbert | W 24–17 | 4-1 | 3-0 |
| 7 | Oct 11 | #540 | #581 | — | Lakeland | W 41–34 | 5-1 | 4-0 |
| 8 | Oct 18 | #546 | #478 | — | @Aurora | W 54–45 | 6-1 | 5-0 |
| 9 | Oct 25 | #536 | #632 | — | @Concordia Chicago | W 47–20 | 7-1 | 6-0 |
| 10 | Nov 1 | #518 | #648 | — | Rockford | W 35–0 | 8-1 | 7-0 |
| 12 | Nov 15 | #521 | #652 | — | Eureka | W 35–0 | 9-1 | 8-0 |
| Bowl Season | ||||||||
| 13 | Nov 22 | #516 | #453 | — | Coe | L 7–44 | 9-2 | 8-0 |
Home-Field Advantage · Concordia-Wisconsin · 2018-present
Elite
85% home win rate vs 65% on the road. margin runs +17.0 better at home. Tomasini Stadium seats 800.
65°F average kickoff temp; 15% of games had measurable precipitation; 10 mph average wind.
Based on 20 home games with weather data.
All-Time Record
30-12
since 2008 · 6 seasons · .714 win rate
Moment of the Year · Concordia-Wisconsin · 2025
Postseason · Lost 7-44 vs Coe
Week 13 of 2025. A reckoning loss — the data point the next season must answer.
Postseason History
Recent postseason (2025): 0-1
Most recent: 2025 — loss 7-44 (home). Last 5 postseason: 0-1.