Ohio Wesleyan University
A private, undergraduate, liberal arts university, Ohio Wesleyan is located in Delaware, Ohio, with easy access to Columbus, Ohio’s capital and the nation’s 14th-largest city. OWU is the home of The OWU Connection, the university's signature program designed to help students "think big" (understand issues from multiple academic disciplines), "go global" (gain international perspective), and "get real" (translate classroom knowledge into real-world experience). OWU also is the home of the "Delaware Entrepreneurial Center at Ohio Wesleyan University," a business accelerator and collaboration with the City of Delaware and Delaware County. Center members work with OWU student-interns to research ideas, create business and marketing plans, and more. The university offers more than 70 majors, 24 NCAA Division III women's and men's varsity sports, and a marching band. It is the home of the Battling Bishops! The university has a long legacy of community service and offers opportunities for students to participate in spring break interfaith service trips each spring. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives” and included on the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review “best colleges” lists.www.owu.edu
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Oct 30, 2026
Frank RossiHOST
I'm really not seeing much here in the squinting here.
Frank RossiHOST
Wabash-Ohio-Wesleyan is, hey, Ohio-Wesleyan at 4-3, not necessarily expected.
Frank RossiHOST
That's good.
Frank RossiHOST
Yep.
Walker MehlHOST
What could you do differently than benching him for the entire second half? I've seen everything from only sit him in the third quarter, but that doesn't send the message.
Walker MehlHOST
If you allow him to go play in the fourth, what are we doing? This is college football coach stuff when you decide, all right, well, you'll sit against Ohio Wesleyan, but we need you for the big Ohio State game.
Walker MehlHOST
So, yeah, what are we doing? No, no.
Walker MehlHOST
If you're going to sit him, then you can sit him.
Andy KamenetzkyHOST
In addition to his role in breaking baseball's color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey was once a part owner of the Dodgers.
Andy KamenetzkyHOST
He also had a background in football, playing for both Ohio Wesleyan and the Shelby Blues, a semi-pro team.
Andy KamenetzkyHOST
What position did Branch Rickey play? Linebacker, running back, or kicker? Linebacker, running back, or kicker? Branch Rickey played.
Andy KamenetzkyHOST
Mace goes first.
Chuck ToddHOST
All right, let's sneak in our first break, and then we're going to go back to the beginning of what made Ohio State dynastic.
J.A. AdandeHOST
know with the reported 20 million dollar cost of the 2024 championship roster at ohio state the current roster that might be making three times as much money it's easy to forget that the ohio state football program was a true student extracurricular activity when it began in the 19th century they formed their first varsity team as early as 1886 the problem was no other college in the state of ohio had another team so opponents were pretty hard to come by their first official game isn't listed until 1990 when they played Ohio Wesleyan and won 20-14.
Chuck ToddHOST
Amazing that Ohio, which is home to Canton, home to the foundational of some of the NFL teams, didn't have enough football teams to play this new young university.
Chuck ToddHOST
But look, in 1894...
Tom RaffelGUEST
I was studying microbes and how they were affecting the degradation of bird feathers.
Tom RaffelGUEST
This was at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Tom RaffelGUEST
and then i got involved in a study that was where we were testing wild birds for uh this uh uh bordetella uh uh respiratory disease and uh the the more i got into kind of literature for those projects the more i realized that at least at the time there were very few people studying ecology of infection uh uh you know so so there was a lot of work being done on you know predator prey dynamics and competitive dynamics and but uh it's really seemed like there were very few people studying infectious disease uh dynamics in wildlife and so i thought this this could be a good niche for me and um i ended up uh finding uh it was a lab at penn state uh that was at the time was under joe keysaker studying ecology.
Tom RaffelGUEST
And he was doing field experiments to test hypotheses about parasitism and how it was affecting amphibian populations.
J.A. AdandeHOST
The problem was no other college in the state of Ohio had another team, so opponents were pretty hard to come by.
J.A. AdandeHOST
Their first official game isn't listed until 1990. when they played Ohio Wesleyan and won 20-14.
Chuck ToddHOST
Amazing that Ohio, which is home to Canton, home to the foundational of some of the NFL teams, didn't have enough football teams to play this new young university.
Chuck ToddHOST
But look, in 1894...
Rob PertellGUEST
Yeah.
Rob PertellGUEST
And to your point, having Ohio Wesleyan University right there on South Sandusky Street, it's a beautiful campus.
Rob PertellGUEST
It doesn't, I don't know if it always feels like a college town to us, but it is nice having, seeing the students downtown and having that connectivity with the university.
Rob PertellGUEST
I think that's nice.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Low and outside, ball one.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bill Hands... attended Ohio Wesleyan, and also Farley Dickinson.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Farley or Farley? Farley, I believe.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think you're right.
Sheri TenpennyHOST
Dr. Jason Lyle is a speaker, author, researcher, and astrophysicist who studies issues at the intersection of science and Christian faith.
Sheri TenpennyHOST
He graduated summa cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he doubled and majored in physics and astronomy and minored in mathematics.
Sheri TenpennyHOST
He earned his master's degree and PhD in astrophysics from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Sheri TenpennyHOST
Jason has more than 20 years of professional experience in creation ministry and continues to partner with other biblical creation ministries, such as the Creation Museum, where he wrote a number of planetarium shows, including the popular Created Cosmos.
Danny KleinGUEST
He was amazing.
Danny KleinGUEST
We played Connecticut? No, Ohio Wesleyan in the Royal Music Majors and stuff.
Danny KleinGUEST
And he'd come out and play the first note on guitar.
Danny KleinGUEST
And you could hear the jaws standing in the ground.
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