The 2025 college football season couldn’t get past Week 1 without creating ripples in the College Football Playoff race for non-power conference schools.

Standouts from Covington, DeSoto Central, Kingsbury, Munford, St. George’s and Whitehaven are up for consideration this week. Voting ends a 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 4.

The Redbirds claim the interleague series victory 4-2.

Last year, Sutton Smith tore his ACL during the Tigers’ first game, and his 2024 season was over in less than 15 minutes of game time. This year, things were different. 

Bryan Torres, Matt Koperniak, Blaze Jordan and Matt Lloyd hit home runs for Memphis in the 8-2 win Saturday in Oklahoma City.

Austin Simmons completed 20 of 31 passes for 341 yards and three touchdowns to help No. 21 Ole Miss rout Georgia State 63-7 on Saturday night in the opener for both teams.

When clothes designer CJ Jones saw his first monogrammed shirt on a LeMoyne-Owen administrator, it started him on a designing journey that now includes a list of famous clients.

The 2025 college football season has opened in chaos, but not in Memphis. The Tigers were all business in taking care of Chattanooga in their season opener.

Nine tackles-for-loss, DeMarco Ward’s pick-six highlight a good day at the office for the Memphis defense.

Memphis running back Greg Desrosiers Jr. suffered a lower-body injury in the first quarter of Saturday’s season opener against Chattanooga and did not return. 

Box score for Saturday’s college football game between the Memphis Tigers and Chattanooga Mocs played at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium.

New Tiger quarterback Brendon Lewis completed 22-of-28 passes for 199 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 81 yards, including a 22-yard touchdown in his first start for Memphis.

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Box score: Memphis 45, Chattanooga 10

Joey Aguilar passed for 247 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 24 Tennessee held off Syracuse for a 45-26 win. Aguilar was 16-for-28 passing in his first game with the Volunteers.

Collierville and Oxford played one of the wackiest high school football games of the season on Friday night. 

The Redbirds walked 14 times on Friday, tying the club’s 2005 record for most walks in a single game.

Maddox Giel runs for two scores and throws for a third while the Owls limit Northpoint to three first downs in the first meeting between the two teams in 45 years.

Quarterback Jaden Thomas throws three touchdown passes and Christopher Talley runs for two as the Mustangs outscore the Tigers.

The Brendon Lewis officially begins for the Memphis Tigers against Chattanooga. The Nevada transfer quarterback is one of several new faces who have banded together in hopes of doing something special. 

Despite a pair of early defeats, defending Class AAA state champion Houston remains the team to beat.

All nine Memphis batters reached safely in the win. Seven Redbirds hitters reached safely more than once.

Ellis Kelly and Ai Kitagawa score as Memphis defeats another SEC opponent. 

Tigers coach Penny Hardaway and a few attorneys discussed the legal aspects of name, image and likeness and its impact on college athletics.

Saints running back accounted for three touchdowns on Aug. 21 in a 48-28 victory over ECS.

Faragi Phillips agreed to become LeMoyne-Owen’s coach in May, eight months after he was fired by Penny Hardaway.

Every season begins with optimism. The Grizzlies can find it by zooming out.