Augustana College (Illinois)

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CCIW · Charles D. Lindberg Stadium · 1,800

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetvs Illinois Wesleyan · our model 64% Augustana College (Illinois) · a number, not a pick

LastL 34–37 at Wisconsin Stout · Sat Sep 12

Nextvs Illinois Wesleyan · Sat Sep 19 · 2 pm ET · Charles D. Lindberg Stadium · series 3-1

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Augustana College (Illinois) · 2026 schedule & results1-1
WkDateUsOppLineOpponentResultRecordConf
1Sep 5#530#569Simpson (IA)W 42–141-00-0
2Sep 12#534#463@Wisconsin StoutL 34–371-10-0
3Sep 19#524#538Illinois Wesleyan
4Sep 26#525#632@Elmhurst
5Oct 3@North Central College
6Oct 10Millikin
8Oct 24@North Park
9Oct 31Wheaton (IL)
10Nov 7Carthage
11Nov 14@Carroll (WI)

Game Week

4d 18h

until kickoff · vs Illinois Wesleyan · Sat Sep 19 · 2 pm ET

Verdict Begins·Live

Augustana is the small Illinois liberal-arts program that won four straight national titles in the 1980s and still plays with the pride of a dynasty.

Title DroughtSince 1986 · 40 yrs

Fans here believe no chip — Augustana plays for the honor of wearing the same uniform as the '83 through '86 teams that put a 2,000-person school on the national college football map.

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The season in chapters

What it is like to watch them2025 · 7-3 · last season

Game feel56even gamescombined pts / game4th highest-scoring of 10 in the CCIW
Heart rate3-0white-knucklein one-score games (3 of 10)2nd most one-score games of 10 in the CCIW
Margin-0.7competitiveavg scoring margin5th best margin of 10 in the CCIW

✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among CCIW teams the same season

Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025

Augustana College (Illinois) has won three of its last five.

Mixed. 7-3 over the last 10, and lost the last one.

Streak L1Last 5 · 3-2Last 10 · 7-3
The forecast

Next Sep 19

vs Illinois Wesleyan · at home

Outcome band · Augustana College (Illinois) · 2026

Augustana College (Illinois)'s most likely season is 1-11 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 4-8.

Floor0-12Rebuild year. Below .500.
Base1-11Mid-table finish.
Ceiling4-8Conference title race. Bracket qualifier in range.

No season-path projection for this program yet, so this is last season's record with a two-win swing down and a three-win swing up, over a 12-game frame.

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Game dayWhat a Saturday in this stadium actually feels like.
The experience

Augustana is the small Illinois liberal-arts program that won four straight national titles in the 1980s and still plays with the pride of a dynasty.

Playoff pathWhere this team sits in the D3 bracket race.
DIVISION III · THE PATH TO THE STAGG BOWL

Augustana College (Illinois) sits 5th in the CCIW and 103rd of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.

CCIW · 2026
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Carthage0-01-068.2
2North Central College0-02-067.2
3Wheaton (IL)0-02-066.6
4Illinois Wesleyan0-02-065.9
5Augustana (IL)0-01-151.9
6Carroll (WI)0-01-151.3
7Millikin0-01-149.7
8Elmhurst0-01-143.8
51.9 CFB Zeitgeist#103 of 229 D355.5 strength of schedule

Win the CCIW for the automatic berth into the 40-team NCAA Division III bracket. Miss it and the path is an at-large bid, selected by NPI — the metric the CFB Index mirrors. Six wins survive the bracket to the Stagg Bowl.

Source: CFB Zeitgeist — conference records + NPI-style rating from 2026 games · the field is 40 teams, NPI-selected
Recruiting buzzWhat fans say about the incoming class right now.

Community pulse

No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.

CFB Zeitgeist · team-pages synth v1.0 “Go Vikings.”
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