Wesleyan Defeats Trinity to Secure Third-Straight NESCAC Title
Trailing 10-3 in the second quarter, the Wesleyan football team scored 10 points in the final 2:04 of the first half, kick starting a run of 24 unanswered points which loomed large in the end as the Cardinals held off a late Bantam comeback bid for a 27-20 victory over Trinity on Saturday afternoon from Tansill Muldoon Stadium.
With Wesleyan, Trinity, and Amherst all finishing the regular season with identical 8-1 records, and with each finishing 1-1 in the head-to-head against one another, all three finish as 2026 NESCAC Co-Champions. This marks the third straight NESCAC title for the Cardinals as Wesleyan becomes the third school in NESCAC history to win three straight league crowns and the first to do so since Trinity in 2016-18.
The win also marks Wesleyan's third straight win over Trinity and second straight triumph over the Bantams in Hartford. The last time the Cardinals defeated Trinity in three straight seasons was 1976-78 while the 1976 and 1978 Wesleyan teams were the last to defeat the Bantams two straight times in Hartford.