Week 1 of the 2025 college football slate was incredible for fans. We got multiple high-profile matchups, like Texas-Ohio State, LSU-Clemson and Charleston Southern-Vanderbilt to open the season.
As a result, some of the “cupcake” contests we typically see got pushed to Week 2. And with 60 minutes of play under their belts, ranked teams wasted no time putting up points in those games.
According to ESPN, ranked FBS teams scored a whopping 1,028 points on Saturday, 1 shy of the single-day AP poll record. This 42.8 points per game average from 24 squads (No. 9 Notre Dame was on bye) was immensely boosted by Alabama and Tennessee, who were two of four ranked teams to eclipse 70 points.
Had the Fighting Irish taken the field, ranked teams would assuredly have broken the record. That said, there are a few SEC schools to blame for falling just shy of the mark:
- LSU and Georgia combined for just 51 points versus Louisiana Tech and Austin Peay, respectively
- Oklahoma limited Michigan to only 13 points in the lone ranked-on-ranked contest of the week (how rude!)
- Florida… we know what Florida did.
Conversely, Mississippi State — an unranked SEC team — did all it could to help break the record. The Bulldogs generously let No. 12 Arizona State score 17 points in the second half before claiming victory on a 58-yard touchdown in the game’s final minute. Perhaps their performance will remind those aforementioned 4 rosters of what can happen when everyone works together for a cause.
