San Diego State pulled it off as we had hoped and became the sixth different cup-winner in the last six years. (This is after 15 years of Stanford and USC trading wins.)
Final run:
$ python3 ./mcc_schedule.py -v
California 0 at San Diego State 34 on Sep 20, 2025
San José State 29 at Stanford 30 on Sep 27, 2025
San Diego State 23 at Fresno State 0 on Oct 25, 2025
California 10 at Stanford 31 on Nov 22, 2025
San José State 3 at San Diego State 25 on Nov 22, 2025
UCLA 10 at USC 29 on Nov 29, 2025
Fresno State 41 at San José State 14 on Nov 29, 2025
2025 final standings
San Diego State 3-0
Stanford 2-0
USC 1-0
Fresno State 1-1
UCLA 0-1
California 0-2
San José State 0-3
2025, 7, San Diego State, 3-0
No-doubter run for the Aztecs. After the thrill of clinching an MCC they let down against New Mexico and missed a chance to play in the “real” conference championship game. Oh well. That MCC flag flies forever. Not only did they win but in allowing only 3 points all year in MCC play they set a new record.
Just for fun let’s run some other virtual conferences. Here’s Texas:
$ MCC_CONFERENCE=TEXAS python3 ./mcc_schedule.py -v
UTSA 24 at Texas A&M 42 on Aug 30, 2025
Baylor 48 at SMU 45 on Sep 06, 2025
Texas State 43 at UTSA 36 on Sep 06, 2025
Houston 35 at Rice 9 on Sep 06, 2025
UTEP 10 at Texas 27 on Sep 13, 2025
SMU 24 at TCU 35 on Sep 20, 2025
Sam Houston 0 at Texas 55 on Sep 20, 2025
Texas Tech 35 at Houston 11 on Oct 04, 2025
Rice 13 at UTSA 61 on Oct 11, 2025
UTEP 35 at Sam Houston 17 on Oct 15, 2025
Baylor 36 at TCU 42 on Oct 18, 2025
UTSA 17 at North Texas 55 on Oct 18, 2025
TCU 17 at Houston 14 on Nov 22, 2025
North Texas 56 at Rice 24 on Nov 22, 2025
Texas A&M 17 at Texas 27 on Nov 28, 2025
Houston 31 at Baylor 24 on Nov 29, 2025
TBRK 2-team tie
TBRK head-to-head didn't resolve anything
TBRK common opponent margin didn't resolve anything
TBRK total margin for Texas and TCU
2025 final standings
Texas 3-0
TCU 3-0
North Texas 2-0
Texas State 1-0
Texas Tech 1-0
Texas A&M 1-1
Houston 2-2
UTEP 1-1
Baylor 1-2
UTSA 1-3
SMU 0-2
Sam Houston 0-2
Rice 0-3
2025, 16, Texas, 3-0
This is an interesting one because it went to multiple tie-breakers. Because of the SEC/Big-12 split TCU and Texas didn’t have any common opponents. Beating Sam Houston 55-0 piled on the total margin to make the difference. This feels right. If you beat A&M on Black Friday you get the Texas Cup.
Original Pac-12:
$ MCC_CONFERENCE=PAC_12 python3 ./mcc_schedule.py -v
California 34 at Oregon State 15 on Aug 30, 2025
Utah 43 at UCLA 10 on Aug 30, 2025
Oregon State 7 at Oregon 41 on Sep 20, 2025
Washington 59 at Washington State 24 on Sep 20, 2025
Arizona State 10 at Utah 42 on Oct 11, 2025
Colorado 7 at Utah 53 on Oct 25, 2025
Arizona 52 at Colorado 17 on Nov 01, 2025
Washington State 7 at Oregon State 10 on Nov 01, 2025
USC 27 at Oregon 42 on Nov 22, 2025
California 10 at Stanford 31 on Nov 22, 2025
Arizona State 42 at Colorado 17 on Nov 22, 2025
Washington 48 at UCLA 14 on Nov 22, 2025
Arizona 23 at Arizona State 7 on Nov 28, 2025
Oregon 26 at Washington 14 on Nov 29, 2025
Oregon State 8 at Washington State 32 on Nov 29, 2025
UCLA 10 at USC 29 on Nov 29, 2025
TBRK 2-team tie
TBRK head-to-head didn't resolve anything
TBRK common opponent margin didn't resolve anything
TBRK total margin for Utah and Oregon
2025 final standings
Utah 3-0
Oregon 3-0
Arizona 2-0
Stanford 1-0
Washington 2-1
California 1-1
USC 1-1
Washington State 1-2
Arizona State 1-2
Oregon State 1-3
UCLA 0-3
Colorado 0-3
2025, 16, Utah, 3-0
Tough year for Colorado. I added Florida as a defined virtual conference as well. (Here’s the diff).
$ MCC_CONFERENCE=FLORIDA python3 ./mcc_schedule.py -v
South Florida 18 at Florida 16 on Sep 06, 2025
Florida Atlantic 28 at Florida International 38 on Sep 13, 2025
Florida Atlantic 13 at South Florida 48 on Oct 18, 2025
Florida State 21 at Florida 40 on Nov 29, 2025
2025 final standings
South Florida 2-0
Florida International 1-0
Florida 1-1
Florida State 0-1
Florida Atlantic 0-2
2025, 4, South Florida, 2-0
Not very fun! Somewhat surprisingly Florida just doesn’t have enough D1 football teams. And they have really boring names. And how did UCF not play a single other Florida-based D1 team? Malpractice.