The No. 8 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team continues the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference season with a top 10 match-up against No. 10 UW-Oshkosh on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. at Perkins Stadium. The Warhawk Concert Series begins at 12 p.m. in the stadium parking lot as the Eddie Butts Band takes the stage.

Saturday's game can be watched live on UWW-TV, channel 100.1 on campus, channel 989 for Spectrum customers in the Whitewater area or online. It can also be heard live on KOOL 106.5 FM WKCH in the Whitewater area or online at 940wfaw.com. Fans can also track live statistics online.

Last Saturday, the Warhawks collected 27 second-half points, including 20 in the fourth quarter alone, to defeat UW-La Crosse 30-7 on the road. Trailing 7-3 at halftime, UW-Whitewater found the end zone midway through the fourth quarter and didn't look back, posting 339 yards of offense in the second half while holding the Eagles to 46 second-half yards.

The Warhawks moved up one spot to No. 7 in the latest American Football Coaches Association Division III Coaches' Poll and jumped two positions to No. 8 in the latest D3football.com Top 25. UW-Whitewater garnered 450 points from D3football.com voters and 995 points from AFCA pollsters. The Warhawks were ranked sixth by Street & Smith entering the 2018 season.

UW-Oshkosh also opened conference play last Saturday, scoring 27 unanswered points in the second half to defeat UW-River Falls 48-14 on the road. The Titans piled up 543 yards of total offense and forced six turnovers, including five interceptions. UW-Oshkosh also held UW-River Falls to 89 yards rushing on 36 carries, an average of 2.5 yards per carry.

SERIES

UW-Whitewater owns a 76-29-5 advantage in the all time series, but the two teams have split the last four meetings and the Warhawks hold a slim 4-3 edge in games since 2012. Last season, UW-Whitewater narrowed a 16-0 deficit in the third quarter to 23-20 by the 10:49 mark of the fourth, but UW-Oshkosh pulled away with two touchdowns over the next eight minutes to hand the Warhawks a 37-20 defeat. The Titans held the ball for nearly 40 minutes in the contest and tallied 258 yards rushing and 341 yards passing for 589 total yards of offense.

NOTABLE

• Five of the last eight games between UW-Whitewater and UW-Oshkosh have been decided by three points or fewer, including three of the last four. The combined cumulative score over that span is UW-Oshkosh 156, Whitewater 149. In each season since 2005, either the Warhawks or the Titans reached the Division III national semifinals or further.
• Saturday's game is part of Family Fest at UW-Whitewater, an annual weekend where students, faculty and staff are invited to host family members and loved ones on campus. In 2016, the Warhawks' Family Fest game against UW-Oshkosh drew a then-Division III national record 17,535 fans to Perkins Stadium. Despite rainy weather last year, Family Fest drew more than 6,000 fans to UW-Whitewater's 14-0 win against UW-Stout.