Olivet College
2-0Michigan · Cutler Field · 2,200
LastW 43–41 vs North Park · Sat Sep 12
Nextat Manchester · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET · Carl W. Burt Memorial Stadium
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 3 | #652 | #627 | — | Millikin | W 39–19 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #648 | #589 | — | North Park | W 43–41 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #647 | #669 | @Manchester | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #647 | #541 | @Calvin | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | Hope | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Alma | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | @Kalamazoo | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | Adrian | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Trine | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Albion |
Game Week
4d 17h
until kickoff · at Manchester · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET
The Comets of Olivet, Michigan — football since 1884 and a founding member of the MIAA, the nation's oldest collegiate conference, with 13 league titles to their name at the Cutler Athletic Complex.
Olivet helped found the oldest collegiate conference in America and owns 13 MIAA titles — and gets dismissed as a small Christian college nobody knows.
The season in chapters
What it is like to watch them2025 · 1-9 · last season
✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among Michigan teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Olivet College has won two of its last five.
Cooling. 3-7 over the last 10, and won the last two.
Next Sep 19
vs Manchester · away
Outcome band · Olivet College · 2026
Outcome band · Olivet College · 2026Olivet College's most likely season is 2-10 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 5-7.
No season-path projection for this program yet, so this is last season's record with a two-win swing down and a three-win swing up, over a 12-game frame.
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The Comets of Olivet, Michigan — football since 1884 and a founding member of the MIAA, the nation's oldest collegiate conference, with 13 league titles to their name at the Cutler Athletic Complex.
Playoff path
Olivet College sits 3rd in the Michigan Conference and 57th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — on the at-large bubble — the conference title is the surer route.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hope | 0-0 | 2-0 | 68.9 |
| 2 | Adrian | 0-0 | 2-0 | 68.8 |
| 3 | Olivet | 0-0 | 2-0 | 61.6 |
| 4 | Calvin | 0-0 | 2-0 | 61.1 |
| 5 | Trine | 0-0 | 1-1 | 46.5 |
| 6 | Albion | 0-0 | 0-2 | 39.8 |
| 7 | Alma | 0-0 | 0-2 | 36.3 |
| 8 | Kalamazoo | 0-0 | 0-2 | 27.7 |
Win the Michigan Conference for the automatic berth into the 40-team NCAA Division III bracket. Miss it and the path is an at-large bid, selected by NPI — the metric the CFB Index mirrors. Six wins survive the bracket to the Stagg Bowl.
Recruiting buzz
Community pulse
No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.