Football 12/10/2024 2:00:00 PM Chris Brannick

UCO Announces 2025 Football Schedule

Bronchos Hosting Six Football Games For Third-Straight Season

EDMOND – Central Oklahoma announced Tuesday its 2025 football schedule with six more games set to be played at Chad Richison Stadium for the third consecutive season.

UCO went 11-2 in 2024 and won the MIAA Championship before reaching the second round of the NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs.

The Bronchos have two non-conference games in the year ahead beginning with a Week Zero trip to Odessa, Texas to take on UT Permian Basin Aug. 30. The Falcons won the Lone Star Conference and made the playoffs in 2023 before appearing the Heritage Bowl this year. UTPB narrowly dropped a 39-37 double overtime bowl-game decision against MIAA rival Central Missouri this past Saturday in the postseason clash in Corsicana, Texas.

UCO will take on NCAA playoff participant Pittsburg State in Week 1 in the home-opener for the Bronchos. Central Oklahoma's only regular season loss in 2024 came against Pitt and the Bronchos are out to avenge that loss in the early season contest Sept. 6 in Edmond. Pitt State (first) and Central Oklahoma (fourth) are two of the winningest programs in Division II history with more than 1,400 combined wins.

With the Bronchos playing in Week Zero next fall, UCO will utilize Week 2 for a bye week, taking Saturday, Sept. 13 off.

It will be back-to-back home games on either side of the bye week when Central Oklahoma returns Sept. 20 to host Washburn in an MIAA matchup. UCO will alternate home and away for four weeks, traveling to Northwest Missouri (Sept. 27) before hosting Central Missouri (Oct. 4) and visiting Fort Hays State on Oct. 11.

Another two-week stretch of home games wraps up the month of October. The Bronchos host Emporia State on Oct. 19 and Northeastern State on Oct. 25. The latter, the battle for the President's Cup, will be UCO's second non-conference game as NSU continues to play football independent of the MIAA.

In November, Central Oklahoma will travel to Nebraska Kearney (11/1) before hosting Missouri Southern on Nov. 8 for the final home game of the regular season. UCO travels to Missouri Western on Nov. 15 in Week 11.

Central Oklahoma went 11-2 in 2024, won the MIAA championship, hosted a first-round playoff game, and reached the NCAA Super Region III semifinals before its season ended there. UCO set 19 school records in 2024 and announced following the season an agreement to keep MIAA Coach of the Year and AFCA Region Coach of the Year Adam Dorrel in Edmond moving forward.

Central Oklahoma will announce ticket sales information, updated game times, and promotional materials for each home game this Spring. The football team will begin with National Signing Day in February as the team works through offseason workouts. Spring football is set to take place in March & April.

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