Olivet College1-9The Comets of Olivet, Michigan — football since 1884 and a founding member of the MIAA, the nation's oldest collegiate conference, with 13 league titles to their name at the Cutler Athletic Complex.
Olivet helped found the oldest collegiate conference in America and owns 13 MIAA titles — and gets dismissed as a small Christian college nobody knows.
Comets country waits.
Olivet College · Next-Season Outcome Band
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Recent Form · last 10 games
Hibernating
Zero of five. Reset territory.
Opens Sep 2
vs Millikin · at home
Game Week
8 days
until kickoff · vs Millikin · Wed Sep 2 · 22:00 UTC
The Comets of Olivet, Michigan — football since 1884 and a founding member of the MIAA, the nation's oldest collegiate conference, with 13 league titles to their name at the Cutler Athletic Complex.
Olivet College sits 8th in the Michigan Conference and 203rd of 240 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alma | 7-0 | 8-3 | 64.2 |
| 2 | Hope | 6-1 | 9-2 | 65.0 |
| 3 | Adrian | 5-2 | 8-2 | 60.6 |
| 4 | Calvin | 4-3 | 7-3 | 59.1 |
| 5 | Trine | 3-4 | 5-5 | 52.0 |
| 6 | Kalamazoo | 1-6 | 4-6 | 44.4 |
| 7 | Albion | 1-6 | 3-7 | 43.7 |
| 8 | Olivet | 1-6 | 1-9 | 36.9 |
Win the Michigan Conference for the automatic berth into the 40-team NCAA Division III bracket. Miss it and the path is an at-large bid, selected by NPI — the metric the CFB Index mirrors. Six wins survive the bracket to the Stagg Bowl.
Signature win 47-44 over Kalamazoo; toughest day 6-63 against Hope.
Community pulse
No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.
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What moved it — fall camp · last 14 days
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| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sep 6 | — | — | — | @Rochester (NY) | L 17–38 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 13 | #588 | — | — | Madonna University (Mich.) | L 28–45 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Sep 20 | #459 | #602 | — | Bluffton | L 28–37 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 5 | Sep 27 | #526 | #455 | — | Adrian | L 27–59 | 0-4 | 0-1 |
| 6 | Oct 4 | #631 | #612 | — | @Kalamazoo | W 47–44 | 1-4 | 1-1 |
| 8 | Oct 16 | #610 | #542 | — | Trine | L 7–59 | 1-5 | 1-2 |
| 9 | Oct 25 | #646 | #439 | — | Alma | L 21–53 | 1-6 | 1-3 |
| 10 | Nov 1 | #647 | #569 | — | @Calvin | L 20–50 | 1-7 | 1-4 |
| 11 | Nov 8 | #657 | #577 | — | Albion | L 42–58 | 1-8 | 1-5 |
| 12 | Nov 15 | #657 | #414 | — | @Hope | L 6–63 | 1-9 | 1-6 |
Home-Field Advantage · Olivet College · 2018-present
Above-Average
38% home win rate vs 26% on the road. margin runs +5.3 better at home. Cutler Field seats 2,200.
66°F average kickoff temp; 9% of games had measurable precipitation; 8 mph average wind.
Based on 22 home games with weather data.
All-Time Record
13-27
since 2022 · 4 seasons · .325 win rate