College Football Playoff First Round Game ·
College Football Playoff First Round Game
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 5 Oregon beat No. 19 James Madison by 17 points, the College Football Playoff First Round Game.
How the game turned
Q1 13:17 Oregon 6, James Madison 0
Oregon 96% to win
Moore 41-yd TD pass to Johnson, Oregon goes ahead 6-0
Big moments
Oregon was never below a 93 percent chance to win. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
How the lead changed
Oregon led after every score.
What happened next
James Madison finished the 2025 season 12-2, No. 19 in the last AP poll before the bowls.
Oregon's next game: W 23-0 vs Texas Tech in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl, Jan 1
12 days laterJames Madison's first game of the 2026 season: W 20-13 vs Liberty, Sep 5, 2026
about 9 months later
Related pages
Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.