DEPAUW GAMEDAY: Wooster

Game info: The College of Wooster football team (1-2, 0-2 North Coast Athletic Conference) hosts DePauw University (1-1, 1-0 NCAC) on Black and Gold Weekend. Kickoff from John P. Papp Stadium is set for 1 p.m.

Last week: Wooster turned in one of its top defensive performances under sixth-year head coach Frank Colaprete last Saturday, but the Fighting Scots came out on the wrong end of a 9-7 contest at Ohio Wesleyan University. DePauw scored 31 unanswered points against Hiram College and went on to top the Terriers 45-7. DePauw held Hiram to 196 yards of total offense.

Live Coverage: MCTV will carry this week’s contest online at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/wooster. WKVX 960 AM will carry this week’s contest live and online at https://wqkt.com.

All-Time Series: DePauw leads the all-time series 6-2, including a 5-1 mark as a member of the NCAC. DePauw has won four straight in the series. Wooster’s last win in the series came in 2013 when the Scots traveled to Greencastle, Ind. and came home with a 27-24 victory. Wooster has one win at home in the series, and that was a 31-0 shutout in 1977. The next game in the series after Wooster’s shutout took place in 2012.

Last meeting: Wooster led briefly thanks to a 23-yard field goal by alumnus Trevor Bowden on the game’s opening drive, but DePauw’s high-powered offense clicked all afternoon during the Tigers’ 51-24 win over the Fighting Scots.

Offense notes: Wooster is the only team in the NCAC to have a student-athlete averaging over 100 yards per game rushing and one over 100 yards per game receiving. Senior Antonio Bailey is second in the conference in carries (63) and yards (307), while Strausbaugh is third among receivers in receptions (20) and yards (312). Wooster’s completing 68.3 percent of its pass attempts on the year, and that mark is good for 17th nationally.

Defense notes: Wooster’s nine sacks against Ohio Wesleyan on Saturday were one shy of matching the single-game program record set against Oberlin College in 2000. The Ohio Wesleyan game also marked the first time since a Nov. 5, 2011 contest against Kenyon College in which Wooster held the opposition without a touchdown, and it was just the second time during the Colaprete era that the Scots held an opponent under 10 points.