The 2025 season's largest margin: Jacksonville State 45, Murray State 10. A 35-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2025 — The Winning Chapter
Jacksonville State's 2025 season (9-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Caden CreelQB1,514 passing yards
- Gavin WimsattQB731 passing yards
- Cam CookRB1,666 rushing yards
- Khristian LandoRB201 rushing yards
- Deondre JohnsonWR724 receiving yards
- Brock RechsteinerWR383 receiving yards
- Pearson BaldwinTE302 receiving yards
- Mac SandersLB83 tackles
- Walker O'SteenLB78 tackles
- Trevor WoodsS64 tackles
- Emmanuel OyebadejoDE4.5 sacks
- Darrell PraterDL3.5 sacks
- Malcolm JonesS3 sacks
Season leaders, 2025.
The season's deepest loss: Jacksonville State 25, Southern Miss 42. A 17-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Jacksonville State beat Troy 17-13 in the postseason.
"Rock the House"
2025 is a middle chapter for Jacksonville State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.