CHICAGO -- The University of Chicago football team travels to Lake Forest in the final game of the season as the Maroons take on the Foresters with a spot in the Smileycookie.com Lakefront Bowl on the line.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NOTES:

* The Maroons enter the weekend with a 6-2 record overall and a 6-1 record in Midwest Conference play following their loss to Monmouth on Saturday.
* The 6-0 start to conference play for UChicago was their best start since 1913 (7-0) when the Maroons won both the National Championship and Big Ten Championship.
* With a win on Saturday, the Maroons will play postseason football for the first time in program history with a berth to the Smileycookie.com Lakefront Bowl. With a loss, Lake Forest, UChicago, and Illinois College will end in a three-way tie with the bowl participant to be determined by most quarters led.
* UChicago has recorded three shutouts on defense this season for the first time since 2018. The Maroons took down Beloit on Saturday with a 40-0 victory.
* Walter Kilgore is the only player in NCAA DIII and one of only eight players in all levels of the NCAA with three 50+- yard field goals made this season.
* The Maroons allowed more than 21 points for the first time this season in the 29-0 loss to Monmouth. The team ranks seventh in DIII in defense with 12.6 points allowed and third in passing defense with just 126.8 yards allowed per game.
* The Maroons rank second in NCAA Division III in third-down defense, allowing opponents to convert 18.3% of the time.
* Morrison Giggetts ranks eighth in the country in yards per kickoff return with an average of 29.9 yards per return.
* Luke Degner has tallied 30 catches, 618 yards, and 8 touchdowns, and he ranks top-20 in DIII with 20.6 yards per reception.
* Brothers Jack Ruff and Max Ruff have each thrown a touchdown pass three times this season. This season marks the first time in recorded UChicago history that a pair of brothers have thrown a touchdown in the same game.

LAKE FOREST COLLEGE NOTES: 

* Lake Forest enters the weekend with a 6-3 record overall and a 6-2 record in Midwest Conference play.
* The Foresters dropped their first three games of the year with three tough contests against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Illinois College, and Monmouth.
* Lake Forest has shut out their opponents in five of their last six games, and they have averaged outscoring their opponents 58-4 in that span.
* Ethan Springer leads the passing attack for the Foresters with 1,401 yards and 13 touchdowns.
* Lake Forest has been a well-balanced attack all year with seven players over 100 rushing yards and eight players over 100 receiving yards.
* On the defensive end, the Foresters are led by Charlie Fordon and Jackson Sander with a team-high 13.5 tackles for loss.

SERIES HISTORY:

* Lake Forest leads the all-time series 21-16-2 over the Maroons.
* The Foresters took down UChicago 28-9 in their last meeting in 2024.
* UChicago picked up the 15-14 win in the last meeting in Lake Forest in 2023.
* The Maroons have not scored more than 15 points in a game against the Foresters since 2019.
* The first-ever meeting between these two sides came in 1892, with the Maroons coming out on top 18-16.

MIDWEST CONFERENCE STANDINGS:

	Team	Conf.	Overall	Quarters Led
1	(RV) Monmouth	8-0	8-1	-
2	UChicago	7-1	7-2	25
T3	Illinois College	6-2	7-2	23
T3	Lake Forest	6-2	6-3	24
5	Ripon	4-4	4-5	-
T6	Knox	3-5	2-6*	-
T6	Cornell (IA)	3-5	3-6	-
8	Grinnell	2-6	2-7	-
9	Beloit	1-7	1-8	-
10	Lawrence	0-8	0-8*	-

* The game between Lawrence and Knox was canceled prior to it being played. Therefore, Knox is credited with a win and Lawrence is credited with a loss in the Midwest Conference, but both overall records remain the same.