Lakeland University will provide live stats and live video for the game at http://www.lakelandmuskies.com/muskieslive. Lakeland sports information director Adam Glatczak will call the play-by-play on the live stream.

The series between the Muskies and Falcons began in 1980 and has been played every season since. Lakeland has won five of the last six in the series, including a 44-0 victory in the teams' last meeting Oct. 12, 2019. The Muskies took advantage of five CUW fumbles in little more than a quarter to take a 34-0 halftime lead and outgained the Falcons 521-193. Lakeland took back the Cheese Bowl a year after Concordia snapped the Muskies' four-game winning streak in the series with a 17-0 victory on Oct. 6, 2018, as Lakeland was done in by five turnovers.

Cheese Bowl: Lakeland and Concordia also are playing for the Cheese Bowl trophy for the 29th time. The Cheese Bowl originated in 1992 as a traveling trophy for the winner of the two teams' annual game when they were the lone two Wisconsin members of the old Illini-Badger Football Conference. Lakeland and Concordia were conference rivals in the IBFC from 1980 through its final year in 2007, when both joined the NACC for football. Concordia holds a 15-13 edge in Cheese Bowl games but Lakeland has held the trophy for almost a year and a half since the last game in Oct. 2019.

NACC spring season: The Muskies, Falcons and the rest of the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference begin an unconventional spring football season today, after all NACC fall sports seasons were canceled due to the COVID-19 virus. Fall seasons were moved to the spring, and conference teams will play a total of five games. Three games will be against divisional opponents, as the NACC has split into separate North and South divisions for this season, and the final two games will be a conference playoff. 

About Lakeland: The Muskies finished 4-6 in the 2019 season and finished in a three-way tie for fourth in the NACC with a 3-4 conference mark. Lakeland was in contention for the conference title until losing its final three games, including finishing the season with a humbling 70-14 loss to conference champion Aurora. The Muskies still finished with a pair of 1,000-yard rushers for the first time in school history with Larry Rivers (a school single-season record 1,375 yards) and Dezmon Eddie (1,037), the fifth and sixth 1,000-yard rushing seasons for a Muskie, respectively. Eddie also finished his career with a school-record 2,915 rushing yards, while Rivers moved into second on Lakeland's all-time rushing list. 

Eleven starters are back from last year's team including five on offense and six on defense. Charl'Tez Nunnery is back at quarterback after starting seven games, and Rivers, receivers Brice Kensey and Christian Chatman and H-Back Mason Prunick lead the offense. The defense is led by Shazon Crutcher, the team's leading tackler last year, and McNemon Vincent tied Crutcher for second on the team with five sacks. Rayshion Brumfield, Andrew Cardiel, Ezekiel Combs and Trevion Smith also give Lakeland an experienced secondary.

About Concordia: The Falcons finished 5-5 overall last season and also tied the Muskies for fourth in the NACC. The win total was two less than from CUW's 7-3 record in 2018, but still marked its first back-to-back non-losing seasons since 2012-14. 

Head coach Greg Etter is the dean of NACC coaches, in his 13th year in charge at Concordia, and his teams have five finishes of second or better in conference in his time. The Falcons return their starting quarterback (James Linn), top running back (Matt Montgomery) and leading receiver (Tanner Hill) from last season as well as their two leading tacklers on defense (Connor Stoming and Dwayne Rackard III).