Blue Devils finished WIAC in third place tie, won bid for bowl
By Casey Parrott, UW-Stout Athletics
Menomonie, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Stout Blue Devils football will play in the fourth annual Culver’s Isthmus Bowl at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23. The Blue Devils will play Wheaton College (Ill.) at Bank of Sun Prairie Stadium at Ashley Field in Sun Prairie, Wis.
UW-Stout finished the season 6-4 overall and 4-3 in WIAC play. Wheaton College finished 8-2, 8-1. The schools will meet for the first time, with both teams making their first Isthmus Bowl appearance.
The bowl game features the top two teams from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) and the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) that did not make the NCAA Division III Championship.
The Blue Devils finished in a four-way WIAC tie for third place with UW-Oshkosh, UW-River Falls and UW-Whitewater, and received the Isthmus Bowl bid from the conference’s tiebreaking procedures. The Wheaton College Thunder placed second in the CCIW standings.
UW-Stout is the third program to represent WIAC in the Isthmus Bowl. UW-River Falls faced WashU in 2021 and 2022, with UW-River Falls earning victories each year. UW-Platteville defeated Augustana last November in the 2023 Isthmus Bowl.
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