My NCAA Football Rankings 2025-26: Final Rankings

The NCAA football season came to a climatic end with the Indiana Hoosiers winning the championship over the Miami Hurricanes. Indiana is my champion and here are my final rankings.

1) Indiana Hoosiers (16-0) beat Miami 27-21 to finish the season. Crushed Alabama 38-3 and Oregon 56-22.

2) Miami Hurricanes (13-3) lost the final 27-21. Knocked off Texas A&M 10-3, Ohio State 24-14, and Ole Miss 31-27 to reach the finals.

3) Ole Miss Rebels (13-2) lost their coach but crushed Tulane 41-10, beat Georgia 39-34, but fell to Miami 31-27.

4) Georgia Bulldogs (12-2) fell to Ole Miss 39-34.

5) Ohio State Buckeyes (12-2) lost to Miami 24-14 to end their season. Undefeated until falling to Indiana and Miami.

6) Oregon Ducks (13-2) crushed JMU 51-34, shut out Texas Tech 23-0, lost to Indiana 56-22.

7) Texas A&M Aggies (11-2) lost to Miami 10-3.

8) Notre Dame Fightin' Irish (10-2) did not play.

9) Texas Tech (12-2) season ended being shut down by Oregon 23-0.

10) BYU Cougars (12-2) beat Georgia Tech 25-21 in the Pop Tarts Bowl.

11) Alabama Crimson Tide (11-4) beat Oklahoma 34-24, got crushed by Indiana 38-3.

12) Utah Utes (11-2) doubled up Nebraska 44-22.

13) Texas Longhorns (10-3) beat Michigan 41-27.

14) Oklahoma Sooners (10-3) lost to Alabama 34-24.

15) Virginia Cavaliers (11-3) beat Missouri 13-7.

16) Iowa Hawkeyes (9-4) beat Vandy 34-27.

17) Vanderbilt Commodores (10-3) lost to Iowa 34-27.

18 Houston Cougars (10-3) beat LSU 38-35.

19) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (9-4) lost BYU 25-21.

20) James Madison Dukes (12-2) lost to Oregon 51-34.

21) SMU Mustangs (9-4) beat Arizona 24-19

22) TCU Horned Frogs (9-4) beat USC 30-27

23) Michigan Wolverines (9-4) lost to Texas 41-27.

24) USC Trojans (9-4) lost to TCU 30-27.

25) Illinois Fighting Illini (9-4) beat Tennessee 30-28.

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: M is for Mia Hamm

 Switching sports to soccer or the other football. Let's switch gears even further by choosing our first female athlete. Mia Hamm perhaps the greatest woman's soccer player of all time. She won four NCAA Championships at North Carolina. She was on World Cup Champion teams in 1991 and 1999. In 1995 Team USA finished in third place and also in 2003. 

                                            Here is a commercial with Michael Jordan...

Besides the World Cup she was on tow Gold Medal Olympic Teams 1996 and 2004. In 2000 she was on a Silver Medal Team. She also won a championship in a professional league.

Her top 10 goals...

Is there a better female soccer player than Mia Hamm? Stay tuned for a new athlete or team for N.

Congratulations Kansas Jayhawks NCAA Men's Basketball Champions

 The Kansas Jayhawks won the 2022 NCAA Men's Championship storming back from a big half time deficit. A fitting conclusion to a classic March Madness Tournament. The championship game pitted two Blue Blood programs with North Carolina and Kansas. The Tar Heels went to the championship game led by a first-year coach in Hubert Davis.

                                             Highlights from the title game...

The tournament had a 15th seed march to the Final 8 with the Saint Peter's Peacocks. Kansas bested Villanova to reach the title game, while UNC topped their archrivals Duke in Coach Krzyzewski's final game. Seven months until the next season starts.

Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks NBA Champions!

Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks NBA Champions! They defeated the Phoenix Suns 105-98 to win the finals four games to two. 

                                               Trophy Presentation:

Game Six Highlights:

Bucks first Championship in about five decades! Congrats to the Bucks!

Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Lightning

 Tampa is getting used to championships this year. First the Buccaneers one the Super Bowl and now the Lighting have one the Stanley Cup.

                                               Scenes from the crowd...

The Lightning one their second cup in a row by defeating the Montreal Canadians four games to one.

Here are the highlights from the deciding game 5.

The Lightning will try to win their third cup in a row when the 2021-22 NHL Season starts in the Fall. In the main time congratulations on your Championship.

 

Congrats to the Alabama Crimson Tide

The Alabama Crimson Tide won the National Title Game dominating Ohio State 52-24. Ohio State was number three heading into the playoffs, Alabama beat number Four  Notre Dame the week before. The Crimson Tide's only close game was in the SEC Championship game where they beat Florida 52-46. 

Over the season they crushed ranked teams like Texas A&M and Georgia. Finishing the season with a 13-0 record. In a challenging year Nick Saban was able to keep his team focus, maximized his talent and earned another Championship. Congratulations to the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Highlights from the game....

Blogging from A to Z 2018: C is for Champions! The Villanova Wildcats

I was planning to blog about something different today for the A to Z Challenge. I was planning to watch the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship game last night. Those plans changed due to a family emergency. That my friends is called life. The curveballs that life tosses at bloggers during this challenge is perhaps the biggest obstacle to success in this challenge.

Last night the Michigan Wolverines were not a big enough obstacle for the Villanova Wildcats who had no trouble finding success! If the game was close I would have been more upset about missing the game.

Below is the game rewind in 10-minutes..

What a year for Philadelphia! First the Eagles won the Super Bowl and now the Wildcats win the NCAA Tournament. There were some wonderful Cinderella stories that busted up many brackets. However, in the end a number one seed prevailed.

How did Villanova get there? First they crushed Radford.

Radford don't feel bad. Villanova beat every team they played in the tournament by double digits.

Next the Wildcats destroyed Alabama...

Next up was the West Virginia Mountaineers...

Followed by an upstart Texas Tech team..

In the Final Four Kansas went down by 16...

Thanks for visiting and come back to see what I pick for D!

A to Z Challenge: Huskies Three Peat

 I wrote about the Connecticut Huskies men and woman's basketball teams last year in the A to Z: Challenge because both teams won the 2014 NCAA Championships. You can revisit that post here.
This year the men's team faded. This year the women's team won another championship their third in a row!

In the past tow seasons they have combined 78-1 record. It is their fifth title in seven years so I think it is safe to say that Coach Geno Auriemma has a legit dynasty going on!

Highlights from the game..

It is the second straight year they have defeated Notre Dame in the finals so the girls at Notre Dame have an awesome team as well! 

In tribute to the Irish here is their intro video from this season that ended Tuesday..

Here are highlights of UCONN blowing out Memphis this season..

Hats off to the Lady Huskies at the University of Connecticut for their three straight championships!