2025 college football season · final
Every college football upset of 2025, and which were deserved
224 upsets in 2025: games the betting underdog won. 109 were deserved on the day, 75 were luck. The biggest: UCLA beat Penn State 42–37 as 24.5-point underdogs, a coin flip on the day.
The luckiest of them: Sam Houston beat Oregon State 21–17 and wins only 2% of replays with the way both teams played. The game, replayed
Biggest upset first, by the closing line. Before kickoff: the line as a win probability for the winner. Replay: how often the winner wins when the game is replayed 4,000 times with the way both teams played (our postgame win expectancy). Deserved: 60% or more.