Wabash ran for 391 yards and finished with 670 yards of total offense on Saturday but could not come away with the win in a 44-41 home loss to The College of Wooster Fighting Scots.
 
The loss was the first of the season as well as the first in conference play for the Little Giants (5-1, 4-1 NCAC). The result was the first home loss in the new Little Giant Stadium and the first home loss since a 21-14 defeat against Wittenberg in 2017.
 
The 670 yards is the second-most in Wabash football history, trailing only a 711-yard effort against Denison in 2000. Wabash ran a school-record 103 plays to average 6.6 yards per play. The Little Giants ran for a season-high 391 yards, the eighth-most in program history, on 55 attempts. Wabash finished with 279 passing yards with quarterback Liam Thompson completing 25 passes on 46 attempts with three touchdown throws to Cooper Sullivan. Sullivan led the Wabash receivers with 15 catches for 101 yards and the career-best three scores.

Donovan Snyder ran for a career-high 220 yards on 34 attempts. Cade Campbell added a 105-yard rushing effort along with one TD on nine attempts.
 
Despite the high level of offensive output, Wooster (4-2, 3-2 NCAC) matched the Little Giants with 474 yards of total offense. The Scots were limited to 66 rushing yards but threw for 408 yards and three TDs.
 
Special teams haunted the Little Giants once again. Trailing 27-20 at halftime, Wabash evened the score midway through the third period on a Cade Campbell 37-yard run to end an eight-play, 97-yard drive after Wabash forced a Wooster turnover near the goal line. The Scots responded with a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Carter Warstler. The kickoff return for a score was the second this season by a Wabash opponent and gave Wooster the 34-27 lead.
 
Thompson completed an eight-play, 75-yard drive with his third TD pass of the game to Sullivan with six minutes left in the third period to tie the score at 34-34.
 
The Scots regained the lead with a 27-yard TD reception by Warstler from Mateo Renteria. Warstler accounted for 254 yards of total offense for Wooster. He caught five passes for 92 yards to go with 128 kickoff-return yards and 34 punt-return yards. Renteria completed 28-of-41 passes for 408 yards and three TDs. All-American tight end Cole Hissong caught six passes for 109 yards. Mitchell Heilman added six catches for 100 yards.
 
Thompson brought Wabash even with Wooster once again with an 11-yard run with 10:16 remaining in the game to tie the score at 41-41. Wabash held the Scots on the next offensive series, but could not capitalize on their own possession and punted back to Wooster.
 
The Scots got the football on the Wabash 29-yard line after an eight-yard punt and took advantage by kicking a 19-yard field goal six-play laters to take a three-point lead with 5:29 left in the game.
 
Wabash marched to Wooster's 22-yard line on a 13-play drive on the next series, but came up empty after a field goal attempt just missed going over the left upright. Wooster ran off all but 24 seconds of the game clock before turning the football back over to the Little Giants. Wabash got the ball to midfield but a pass toward the goal line as the final horn sounded fell incomplete, ending the Little Giants' undefeated season.
 
Sullivan caught touchdown passes of 17 and 6 yards in the first half of the game. Jacob Handley connected on a career-long 41-yard field goal in the first quarter and added a 39-yard field goal at the end of the first half to cut the Wooster lead to 27-20.
 
Wabash held a 10-7 first-quarter lead but was outscored 20-10 in the second period.
 
The Little Giants look to regroup beginning next week with the first of back-to-back road trips. The Little Giants head to Delaware, Ohio, on Saturday, October 23 for a 2 p.m. kickoff at Ohio Wesleyan.