The 2025 season's largest margin: Memphis 45, Tulsa 7. A 38-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2025 — The Winning Chapter
Memphis's 2025 season (8-5) 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
- Brendon LewisQB2,673 passing yards
- Sutton SmithRB669 rushing yards
- Gregory DeRosiersRB563 rushing yards
- Frank PeasantRB279 rushing yards
- Cortez BrahamWR889 receiving yards
- Jamari HawkinsWR623 receiving yards
- Marcello BusseyWR287 receiving yards
- Sam BrumfieldLB90 tackles
- Kamari WilsonDB78 tackles
- Chris BracyDB71 tackles
- Drue WattsDB4 sacks
- Everett Roussaw Jr.LB2.5 sacks
- William Whitlow Jr.DL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2025.
The season's deepest loss: Memphis 7, NC State 31. A 24-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Memphis fell to NC State 7-31 in the postseason.
"Go Tigers Go"
2025 is a middle chapter for Memphis — 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.