# 2024 Wartburg Knights football team

The 2024 Wartburg Knights football team represents Wartburg College as a member of the American Rivers Conference (ARC) during the 2024 NCAA Division III football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Chris Winter, the Knights play home games at Walston-Hoover Stadium in Waverly, Iowa.
The Knights won their 20th conference championship and 3rd straight in 2024. Their season would come to an end in the third round of the NCAA playoffs to Bethel (MN). Chris Winter was named the conference coach of the year for the 3rd straight year, along with Parker Rochford being named defensive player of the year(DPOY). The Knights have had the DPOY in the ARC 3 years running.

## Schedule

Wartburg's 2024 regular season schedule consists of four home, with six on the road.
| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance |
| September 7 | 7:00 p.m. | at Monmouth (IL)* | No. 4 | April Zorn Stadium and Woll Memorial FieldMonmouth, IL | W 38–24 | 3150 |
| September 14 | 1:00 p.m. | at No. 12 Saint John's (MN)* | No. 5 | Clemens StadiumCollegeville, MN | L 13–35 | 9,529 |
| September 21 | 1:00 p.m. | at Central (IA) | No. 13 | Ron and Joyce Schipper StadiumPella, IA | W 10–6 | 1,500 |
| September 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Nebraska Wesleyan | No. 13 | Walston-Hoover StadiumWaverly, IA | W 34–0 | 2,301 |
| October 12 | 1:00 p.m. | at Buena Vista | No. 16 | J. Leslie Rollins Stadium and Peterson FieldStorm Lake, IA | W 70–21 | 520 |
| October 19 | 1:30 p.m. | Simpson | No. 12 | Walston-Hoover StadiumWaverly, IA | W 46–21 | 6,125 |
| October 26 | 1:00 p.m. | at Coe | No. 13 | Clark FieldCedar Rapids, IA | W 14–7 | 2,156 |
| November 2 | 1:00 p.m. | Luther | No. 12 | Walston-Hoover StadiumWaverly, IA | W 49–10 | 4,250 |
| November 9 | 1:00 p.m. | at Dubuque | No. 12 | Chalmers FieldDubuque, IA | W 24–14 | 1,250 |
| November 16 | 1:00 p.m. | Loras | No. 11 | Walston-Hoover StadiumWaverly, IA | W 69–14 | 3,501 |
| November 30 | 12:00 p.m. | No. 7 Wisconsin–Platteville* | No. 11 | Walston-Hoover StadiumWaverly, IA (NCAA Division III Second Round) | W 19–14 | 3,715 |
| December 7 | 12:00 p.m. | No. 21 Bethel (MN)* | No. 11 | Walston-Hoover StadiumWaverly, IA (NCAA Division III Third Round) | L 14–24 | 5,214 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from D3Football.com Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in central time |||||||

## Rankings

Ranking movements Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking :
| | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week |
| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Final |
| D3football.com | 4 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 13 |
| AFCA | 4 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 12 |

## Awards and honors

Individual awards :
| Player | Award |
| Parker Rochford | ARC Defensive Player of the Year AFCA 2nd team All-American AP 1st team All-American D3football.com 2nd team All-American |
| Tucker Kinney | AFCA 1st team All-American AP 1st team All-American D3football.com 2nd team All-American |
| Coach | Award |
| Chris Winter | ARC Coach of the year |
| Reference: ||
All-Conference :
| Player | Position | Team | Year |
| Thane Alexander | DB | 1 | SR |
| Justin Grieff | DL | 1 | SR |
| Keenan Tyler | LB | 1 | JR |
| Parker Rochford | DB | 1 | SR |
| Ethan Stockwell | OL | 1 | SR |
| Dawson Rud | RB | 1 | SO |
| Tucker Kinney | OT | 1 | SR |
| Ben Bryant | RS | 1 | SR |
| Christian Nunley | DL | 2 | SR |
| Will Conlan | OL | 2 | SR |
| Carter Henry | WR | 2 | SR |
| Carter Markham | QB | 2 | SR |
| Cael O'Neill | K | 2 | SR |
| Jaxson Hoppes | P | HM | SO |
| Kaleb Lamphier | DB | HM | SR |
| John McConohy | TE | HM | SR |
| Austin Souhrada | LS | HM | FR |
| Mac Watts | LB | HM | JR |
| Jake Walker | DL | HM | SO |
| HM = Honorable mention. Reference: ||||