The 2025 season's largest margin: Ball State 42, Akron 28. A 14-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2025 — The Correction
2025 is a losing-side chapter for Ball State. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Kiael KellyQB1,560 passing yards
- Qua AshleyRB547 rushing yards
- Qian MagwoodWR320 receiving yards
- Donovan HamiltonWR244 receiving yards
- Eric WeatherlyWR238 receiving yards
- Alfred CheaLB59 tackles
- Nathan VoorhisDE49 tackles
- Joey StemlerLB44 tackles
- DeJuan EcholesLB4 sacks
- Drew HughesDT2 sacks
Season leaders, 2025.
The season's deepest loss: Ball State 0, Western Michigan 42. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Chirp Chirp"
2025 sits in Ball State's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.