Wabash heads to Oberlin, Ohio, for a Sunday afternoon North Coast Athletic Conference football game at Oberlin College. Kickoff is at 12 p.m.
 
Wabash and Oberlin play in a rare Sunday afternoon college football game in this year's contest. The game was moved to Sunday due to the Yom Kippur holiday on Saturday (10 Tishri 5785). In a review of records and newspaper accounts dating back to 1914, no record of a Wabash football game played on a Sunday has been found. The last time Wabash played a game other than on a Sunday was a Friday night contest against Earlham in Richmond, Indiana, on October 15, 1948.
 
Wabash holds a 24-2-1 all-time advantage over Oberlin in football games dating back to a 32-7 loss to the Yeomen in the first meeting in 1945. The Little Giants are 22-1 in NCAC matchups against Oberlin since joining the conference for the 2000 season. Wabash is 12-1 in games played at Oberlin, including a 66-20 victory in the Little Giants' last trip to Ohio to face the Yeomen in 2022. Wabash lost in the first meeting at Oberlin in 1945 and lost a home contest 31-16 in 2012.
 
LAST WEEK
Seven different Wabash players found the end zone in last Saturday's 55-19 victory at Wooster. The Little Giants trailed 7-0 after a 70-yard TD run by the Scots on the third play from scrimmage. The Wabash defense settled in from there, limiting Wooster to 59 rushing yards for the remainder of the game.
 
The Little Giants responded with a ten-yard touchdown pass from Brand Campbell to Connor Thompson and a one-yard scoring run by Javon Garry to take a 14-7 lead. Campbell added a four-yard TD run and touchdown passes to Nick Witte and TJ Alexander. Garry scored a second time on a 12-yard run to go with touchdown runs by Cole Dickerson and Adam Mullett in the blowout win.
 
Wabash accounted for 577 yards of total offense, its highest output since amassing 64 total yards last season against Hiram. Xavier Tyler ran for a career-best 185 yards on 15 carries. Garry carried ten times for a career-high 58 yards and two scores. Campbell threw for a career-best 232 yards and three TDs while completing 15 of 20 pass attempts. Thompson led the receiving corps with eight catches for 80 yards. Alexander caught three passes for a career-high 109 yards.
 
Gavin Ruppert led the Wabash defense with seven solo tackles and eight total stops. He recorded three tackles for losses of nine yards with one sack for four yards. Ayden Salpietra extended the LIttle Giants' defensive streak to five consecutive games with an interception, dating back to the 2023 Monon Bell game. Salpietra picked off Wooster quarterback Chanden Lee in the third quarter to set up Garry's second touchdown of the game.
 
O-LINE PRIDE
The Wabash College offensive line of Kanon Kelley, Jax Bower, Enrique Ruiz, Quinn Sholar, and Cameron Ford earned D3football.com Team of the Week honors for their efforts in the Little Giants' 55-19 victory on Saturday at the College of Wooster.
 
The Wabash front line helped the Little Giants produce a season-high 577 total yards of offense, including a season-best 334 rushing yards with five rushing touchdowns, garnering Week 5 Team of the Week honors from the website. The Little Giants' previous season-high for rushing yards was 166 at UW-Platteville, while the best production of total offense before Saturday also came against the Pioneers (360 yards).
 
BY THE NUMBERS
Xavier Tyler's career-high 185 yards last Saturday at Wooster were the most by a Wabash player since Liam Thompson '24 ran for 201 yards against the Scots last season. Tyler leads the conference and ranks 15th among Division III players, averaging 114.5 yards per game. His 458 rushing yards are second in the NCAC and 24th in the nation. Tyler also surpassed the 1,000-yard career rushing mark and enters this weekend with 1,177carer rushing yards, 30th on the Wabash all-time list.
 
With eight tackles in the victory at Wooster, junior linebacker Gavin Ruppert moved into a tie with Jared Lange '08 for 20th on the Wabash career tackles list with 208. Ruppert leads the NCAC in solo tackles this season with an average of six per game and is 21st among Division III players.
 
Wabash turned in 577 yards of offense against Wooster, which tied for the 23rd-best offensive output in Little Giant football history and the most yards in a game since a school record of 776 yards at Kenyon last season. Wabahs ranks second in the conference in yards per game, averaging 379 yards a contest behind DePauw's 468 yards-per-game average.
 
SCOUTING THE YEOMEN
Oberlin enters Saturday's game looking for its first win and first points against a North Coast Athletic Conference opponent in 20204. The Yeomen are coming off a 34-0 home loss to Kenyon last Saturday to go with shutout losses at DePauw and Ohio Wesleyan.
 
Ben Suler and Drew Nye have split the quarterback duties for the Yeomen. Suler has played in all five games, completing 26 of 78 passes for 163 yards with three interceptions. Nye has thrown for 350 yards and two touchdowns with 32 completions in 73 attempts, along with five interceptions. Evan Smith-Rooks also took snaps at quarterback in the loss to Kenyon, finishing 5-of-10 passing for 66 yards.
 
Rooks-Smith is the leading receiver for Oberlin with 14 catches for 155 yards and one TD. Connor Steele has caught ten passes for 210 yards and one score. Greg Lane leads the rushing attack for Oberlin with 57 carries for 80 yards. Colten Danel has rushed for 58 yards on 21 carries.
 
Middle linebacker Hunter Green leads the conference with 43 total tackles for an average of 8.6 per game. His 4-1/2 tackles for losses totaling seven yards are also tops among Yeomen players. Colten Danel leads the team with three sacks for 29 yards. Green, James Chikwe, Dylan Marshall, and Nathaniel Castro each have an interception this season.
 
Junior linebacker Wyatt Harris paces the defense with a team-best 29 tackles and four tackles for losses totaling 15 yards. Wyatt Wilkie and Louie Lindsey each have produced over 20 tackles this season as safeties and have two interceptions apiece.