The Wiggum Scale: Rating 2025's Most Heartbreaking Moments

About this episode

The episode introduces the Wiggum Scale to rate the most heartbreaking moments from the 2025 college football season.

March Madness has a way of bringing old feelings back to the surface, and for college football fans, there's plenty of unresolved heartbreak left over from the 2025 season. In this college football episode, we introduce the Wiggum Scale, a Ralph Wiggum-inspired framework for rating the most devastating losses and collapses of the year. From Penn State's season-breaking double overtime loss to Oregon at a packed Beaver Stadium, to a South Carolina team that watched a 30-3 halftime lead against Texas A&M completely evaporate, to a botched extra point hold that may have cost Notre Dame a playoff berth, we make peace with more than a dozen moments that  some fans may never want to feel again. Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 7:43 - Omar Cooper Jr.'s catch 13:14 - Oregon derails Penn State's season 18:55 - West Virginia wins the Backyard Brawl 23:28 - Tyler Buchner's botched hold 30:54 - South Carolina gives away a 27-point lead 37:57 - Ole Miss falls just short against Miami 46:09 - Utah breaks Chris Klieman 51:27 - The 4th quarter of UNLV vs Air Force 53:40 - Georgia comes back on Tennessee 59:56 - Cal upsets SMU 1:04:13 - Rapid Fire: New Mexico beats SDSU, Montana State's wild FCS…

Topics covered

• college football
• heartbreaking moments
• March Madness
• Wiggum Scale
• devastating losses
• 2025 season

Keywords

• Wiggum Scale
• college football
• heartbreak
• 2025 season
• losses
• March Madness
• Penn State
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• Notre Dame

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Penn State, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Ole Miss, Miami, Utah, UNLV

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