March Madness was light on upsets this season, but college sports fans should get a healthy dose of mayhem when the next athletic year commences. The 2025 college football season will be ripe for chaos as more teams than ever feel as though they have a shot at national championship contention. Playoff expansion created more meaningful games last season, and with a greater volume of title-hunting teams comes the potential for more notable upsets.
Nobody last season foresaw Notre Dame losing to Northern Illinois, and in hindsight after the Fighting Irish reached the national championship game, that early-season shocker is even more puzzling. There is no telling how many of those stunners are in store for 2025, but one thing is certain, and that is that underdogs always have a chance to wreak havoc.
For the purposes of this exercise, projecting key 2025 upsets, we determined an upset as an instance wherein a team outside the 247Sports way-too-early top 25 defeats a team inside those preseason rankings.
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Here are 10 potential upsets that would shake up the 2025 College Football Playoff race:
