College football's top 100 games of the 2025 season - ESPN

Off the field, college football appears caught in a constant state of discontent. We can't agree on the proper size of a playoff. Years of winner-take-all media-rights stakes have turned conferences and conference mates against one another. Coaches sign players to contracts that are only theoretically enforceable, then openly try to poach other players from other teams with other theoretically enforceable contracts.

On the field, however, the game remains utterly spectacular. As hard as it feels like we're trying to screw it up, we just can't. (Or at least, we haven't yet.) The 2025 college football season offered us epic upsets, dynamite playoff games at every level of the sport, iconic plays — you probably know exactly what I'm referring to if I say «Cooper's catch» or «Chambliss' scramble» or "Mendoza's leap" — and our first incredible national title game in eight years.

Let's once again write a love letter to the season by celebrating its 100 best games. There was a lot to love.

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With a 21-0 midgame run, it looked as though K-State had seized control of this one. The Wildcats led 31-17 with nine minutes left, but Sawyer Robertson threw a TD pass to Bryson Washington, then ran in a 2-point conversion to cut the gap to six. Baylor took a sudden lead when Jacob Redding returned an interception 66 yards for a touchdown as KSU was killing clock. The Wildcats responded with a field goal drive to make it 34-32, but Connor Hawkins knocked in a 53-yard field goal with 31 seconds left.

Baylor might not have been very good, but the Bears sure played some exciting games. In this edition of the Revivalry, TCU used a 28-3 run to seize control and led by 21 points, with