2025 Conference USA football season

The 2025 Conference USA football season is the 30th season of college football play for Conference USA (CUSA). The season began on August 23, 2025, and concluded with the Conference Championship Game on December 5, 2025. Twelve member schools took part in the season, which was part of the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

Conference realignment

For 2025, two teams Ã¢ÂÂ Delaware and Missouri State Ã¢ÂÂ joined the conference after moving up from Division I FCS. By NCAA rules, both teams were declared ineligible for post-season play while they finish their transition to the FBS level. However, because there were not enough six-win teams eligible for the 42 FBS bowl games, both teams will be participating in a bowl game.

The 2025 season is set to be the final season for UTEP in Conference USA. UTEP accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference beginning in 2026.

This is potentially the final season for Louisiana Tech in CUSA. Louisiana Tech accepted an invitation to rejoin the Sun Belt Conference, which it had left in 2001, effective no later than 2027.

Preseason

The Conference USA decided not to conduct a preseason media poll this season, instead devising a "bowl confidence index," through which 24 voters Ã¢ÂÂ two from each Conference USA member school Ã¢ÂÂ would select which CUSA members they believed would or would not reach a bowl game at the conclusion of the 2025 regular season. The conference published the results of the vote on July 18, 2025.

Head coaches

On November 10, 2024, Kennesaw State head coach Brian Bohannon announced that he was stepping down from the position, effective immediately. On December 1, 2024, Kennesaw State announced Jerry Mack as the new head coach. Mack had previously been the running backs coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL.
On December 1, K. C. Keeler was announced as the new head coach of Temple in the American Athletic Conference. On December 18, 2024, Sam Houston announced Phil Longo as the new head coach for 2025. Longo had previously been the offensive coordinator at Wisconsin.
On December 12, 2024, Rich Rodriguez was named as the new head coach of West Virginia in the Big 12 Conference. On December 21, 2024, Jacksonville State announced Charles Kelly as the new head coach for 2025. Kelly had previously been the co-defesnive coordinator at Auburn.
On December 1, 2024, FIU announced they had fired head coach Mike MacIntyre. On December 7, 2024, FIU named Willie Simmons as their new head coach for the 2025 season. Simmons had previously been the running backs coach at Duke.

Note: All stats shown are before the start of the 2025 season.

Rankings

Schedule

The 2025 schedule was released on February 6, 2025.

Week 0

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Conference Championship Game

Postseason

Bowl Games

Records vs. other conferences

2025Ã¢ÂÂ2026 records against non-conference foes:

Regular season

Conference USA vs Power 4 matchups

This is a list of games Conference USA has scheduled versus power conference teams (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Notre Dame and SEC). All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.

Conference USA vs other FBS matchups

The following games include Conference USA teams competing against teams from the American, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12 or Sun Belt.

Conference USA vs FBS independents matchups

The following games include Conference USA teams competing against FBS Independents, which only includes UConn for 2025.

Conference USA vs. FCS matchups

The following games include Conference USA teams competing against FCS schools.

Awards and honors

Player of the week honors

Conferece USA Individual Awards

The following individuals received postseason honors as chosen by the league's head coaches.

All-Conference Teams

The following players were selected part of the All-Conference teams.