The worst college football season of 2025 is complete.
Massachusetts lost to Bowling Green 45-14 on Tuesday, Nov. 25 to finish 0-12, the worst season in program history. After cutting the deficit to 28-14 before halftime, UMass was shut out in the second half to secure the winless season.
UMass will be the lone team in FBS to not win a game during the 2025 season.
The Minutemen have struggled as a football program ever since they made the jump to FBS in 2012, but the 2025 campaign hit a new low. It was the first season under coach Joe Harasymiak and UMass was playing its first season back in the MAC (it left the conference in 2015).
The 12 losses on the season included a 27-26 loss to FCS Bryant in Week 2 that ended on a last-second field goal. That game against the Bulldogs and the loss to Buffalo were the closest UMass got to winning – those were the only games it lost by single-digits. It lost all of its games by an average margin of 27.5 points.
UMass football struggles
The 2025 season continues what’s been a troubling trend for the Minutemen, as they have lost 16 consecutive games dating back to 2024. It last beat an FBS team on Oct. 28, 2023, when it beat Army.
UMass last went winless during the shortened 2020 season with an 0-4 record. However, there have only been a few wins in the past 15 years.
Since joining FBS, UMass has not won more than four games in a season, and has gone 1-11 in five seasons. Harasymiak is the fifth coach since 2012, and in that time, UMass has won just a total of 28 games.
Winless seasons in college football
This season marks the second straight season a team failed to win a game after Kent State went 0-12 in 2024.
Since 2012, there have been nine teams that went winless, excluding the 2020 season. In that COVID-shortened season, four teams didn’t win a game.
Here’s a look at recent winless squads:
- 2025: UMass (0-12)
- 2024: Kent State (0-12)
- 2019: Akron (0-12)
- 2017: UTEP (0-12)
- 2015: UCF (0-12)
- 2015: Kansas (0-12)
- 2013: Miami Ohio (0-12)
- 2013: Georgia State (0-12)
- 2012: Southern Mississippi (0-12)