# 2025 college football season thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [August 31, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628 "2025-08-31T04:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/61 "2025-10-05T06:28:02Z")
One of the few times I’ve been happy to see UCLA win. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/62 "2025-10-07T17:42:16Z")
Saw this in The Athletic this morning. (paywalled) > For the first time since their head-to-head series began in 1896, Colgate has pulled ahead of Cornell, 52-51-3. Cornell won 13 of the first 14 games in their David vs. Goliath competition by a combined score of 190-15 (including a tie), but Colgate was apparently playing the long game and resolved to catch the Cornell Red by 2025. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/63 "2025-10-11T22:58:54Z")
Unranked Texas just shocked No. 6 Oklahoma in a fairly solid beating. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/64 "2025-10-11T23:26:19Z")
Indiana improves to 6-0 with a road win against #3 Oregon. This is the Hoosiers’ first road win against an AP Top 5 opponent in program history. They lost their first 46 such contests. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/65 "2025-10-11T23:55:37Z")
Indiana will be ranked in the top 5 next week. If ChatGPT is to be believed, that will be the first time since 1945 that they have been ranked that high. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/66 "2025-10-12T03:46:18Z")
Auburn fell completely apart with 2 minutes to go in the first half. Between a bunch of “Under review” calls (The fumble at the goal was a terrible call, IMO), horrible coaching decisions (play calling and calling for a play review) and a couple of stupid penalties (targeting, and roughing the passer) Auburn just choked the game away. I think the last two minutes of the first half took 45 minutes to play. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/67 "2025-10-12T04:17:13Z")
Penn St. drops a second in a row! SC looked pretty good picking apart #15 Michigan. I’m happy. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/68 "2025-10-12T04:20:07Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Penn St. drops a second in a row! [Did you mean third](https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/213/penn-state-nittany-lions)? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/69 "2025-10-12T04:22:25Z")
Uh, Yeah! That’s the Ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/70 "2025-10-12T13:29:59Z")
Nittany Lions also lost their starting QB for the season with road games at Iowa and Ohio State next up. Followed by Indiana at home. Their season appears to be in deep trouble. Can’t verify but I saw a tweet yesterday that it was the first time in 30 years years that a team favored by more than 20 points had lost two straight outright. Kudos to Indiana, who look so tough. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/71 "2025-10-12T21:53:06Z")
Ohio State, Miami (FL) and Indiana are now ranked first, second, and third. Indiana got a first-place vote and is ranked in the top 3 for the first time in program history. > **[Coaches Poll: Alabama, Indiana ramp up, Oklahoma slides in college football...](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/coaches-poll-top-25-alabama-indiana-oklahoma-week-8-college-football-rankings/)** > > The Hoosiers notched their first road win vs. a top-five opponent in history at Oregon ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/72 "2025-10-12T22:48:19Z")
On the other end of the Bowl Eligible Watch, besides bowl-banned Akron, we may have our first bowl-ineligible team of the season: Oregon State is 0-7, and I have heard nothing about the Pac-12 getting rid of its “teams that have five or fewer wins must decline bowl bids” policy. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/73 "2025-10-12T22:50:43Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Oregon State is 0-7 But they could still win the conference! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/74 "2025-10-12T23:03:18Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Nittany Lions also lost their starting QB for the season with road games at Iowa and Ohio State next up. Followed by Indiana at home. Their season appears to be in deep trouble. > > Can’t verify but I saw a tweet yesterday that it was the first time in 30 years years that a team favored by more than 20 points had lost two straight outright. > > Kudos to Indiana, who look so tough. They (Penn State) also [fired their head coach today](https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46573030/penn-state-fires-head-coach-james-franklin-sources-say). ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/75 "2025-10-12T23:42:29Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Oregon State is 0-7 > > But they could still win the conference! Actually, up through 2016, a team with a losing record could go to a bowl game if (a) it won its conference championship and (b) the conference had a contract with a bowl that said that its champion would go to that bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/76 "2025-10-13T03:00:18Z")
UAB [fired coach Trent Dilfer](https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46575973/uab-blazers-fire-football-coach-trent-dilfer) after their 3rd straight loss. In his 2+ seasons in Birmingham, the team had a 9-21 record. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/77 "2025-10-13T13:08:09Z")
Major power coaching changes are such fun times on college football message boards. It will be no exception with Penn State. You know who scares me? _Again?_ Freaking Alabama. While they don’t have quite the dominating lineup as they did during the Saban Reign of Terror, I think the Simpson kid at QB is quietly really good. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/78 "2025-10-16T22:14:05Z")
Indiana gives head coach [Curt Cignetti an 8-year, $93 million extension.](https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46617941/indiana-announces-new-8-year-93m-contract-coach-cignetti) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/79 "2025-10-17T01:19:41Z")
I am tickled pink over that contract extension. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628/80 "2025-10-17T01:34:54Z")
So am I. Born and raised in Indiana. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-college-football-season-thread/1022628.md?page=5)