Cincinnati·Big 12

2025 — The 2025 Season

Cincinnati's 2025 season (7-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 7-6
Final result Bowl season Lost the Liberty Bowl
AP final #22 post-bowls
SP+ +0.5 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L vs Nebraska 17-20 W vs Bowl Gre 34-20 W vs Nort Sta 70-0 W @ Kansas 37-34 W vs Iowa St 38-30 W vs UCF 20-11 W @ Okla St 49-17 W vs Baylor 41-20 L @ Utah 14-45 L vs Arizona 24-30 L vs BYU 14-26 L @ TCU 23-45 L vs Navy 13-35 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2025.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2025 season's largest margin: Cincinnati 70, Northwestern State 0. A 70-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Cincinnati 14, Utah 45. A 31-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Cincinnati fell to Navy 13-35 in the postseason.

"Go Bearcats"
— Cincinnati fanbase voice · 2025· synthesized
What it meant

2025 is a middle chapter for Cincinnati — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.