Wilmington (OH)3-7
Hope-Doping·Offseason

The Fightin' Quakers of Wilmington, a small Quaker-founded Ohio college that has played football at Townsend Field since 1900 and now grinds through the Ohio Athletic Conference.

Standard GapA small faith-rooted college where a winning season is an event, scrappi…

Wilmington plays in the OAC, where a small Quaker college spends every fall trying to matter in a league the Mount Union dynasty has dominated for decades.

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The Quakers are patient.

Wilmington (OH) · Next-Season Outcome Band

Floor / Base / Ceiling

floor1-11Rebuild year. Below .500.
base3-9Mid-table finish.
ceiling6-6Conference title race. Bracket qualifier in range.

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

Cooling

Two of five. Schedule has caught up.

Streak L3Last 5 · 2-3Last 10 · 3-7
The forecast

Opens Sep 3

vs Wooster · away

Game Week

9 days

until kickoff · at Wooster · Thu Sep 3 · 23:00 UTC

The experience

The Fightin' Quakers of Wilmington, a small Quaker-founded Ohio college that has played football at Townsend Field since 1900 and now grinds through the Ohio Athletic Conference.

DIVISION III · THE PATH TO THE STAGG BOWL

Wilmington (OH) sits 8th in the Ohio Conference and 175th of 240 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.

Ohio · 2025
TeamConfOverallIndex
1John Carroll1-012-274.2
2Mount Union8-111-174.0
3Ohio Northern7-18-360.5
4Baldwin Wallace6-28-262.2
5Heidelberg5-36-454.2
6Muskingum University4-44-647.7
7Marietta3-55-551.8
8Wilmington (OH)1-73-743.2
43.2 CFB Zeitgeist#175 of 240 D351.5 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 2025 games · the field is 40 teams, NPI-selected
THE 2025 SEASON · 3-7
W 59-35 vs Wooster · Wk 2+24WoosterL 21-63 at Baldwin Wallace · Wk 3-42Baldwin L 49-56 at Muskingum University · Wk 4-7MuskinguL 35-41 vs Ohio Northern · Wk 5-6Ohio NorL 0-59 vs Mount Union · Wk 7-59Mount UnW 54-41 at Otterbein · Wk 8+13OtterbeiW 34-23 at Anderson (IN) · Wk 9+11AndersonL 14-44 vs Marietta · Wk 10-30MariettaL 31-34 at Heidelberg · Wk 11-3HeidelbeL 27-28 vs Capital · Wk 12-1Capital

Signature win 59-35 over Wooster; toughest day 0-59 against Mount Union.

Community pulse

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

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