From Belichick’s Girlfriend to Tech’s Gamble: 2025’s Juiciest College Football Storylines

College football is beautiful because it’s a cocktail of a Disney movie, tribal warfare, and reality television in the vein of professional wrestling. As it spins further and further into the chaos of bloated conferences, giant playoffs, and unregulated transfers, it resembles Real Housewives of Tuscaloosa more than it does Leave It to Beaver. 

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Headed into 2025, there are some juicy storylines to follow. Let’s look at my three favorites.

Bill Belichick: Blink Twice If You Are Being Held Hostage?

She held me spellbound in the night (woo-ooh)
Dancing shadows and firelight
Crazy laughter in another room (woo-ooh)
Woo-hoo, witchy woman
See how high she flies

~The Eagles, Witchy Woman

Things might be happening in the legendary coach’s bedroom that are making his toes curl and glasses shatter. But the cutoff hoodie-wearing, six-time Super Bowl winner is not calling the shots in Chapel Hill. I thought the move to not holdout for the NFL was a strange one and I joked he went the college route so his girlfriend could go through sorority rush. But, I think she might have wanted a place where she could be all powerful. 

Belichick refused to be upstaged by Tom Brady in New England once upon a time, yet is getting road graded by his new girlfriend, Jordon Hudson. So much so that Hudson has demanded to be cc’ed on all emails sent to Coach at UNC by the athletic director. She is even negotiating contracts with documentary makers on his behalf and directing the happenings at the spring game.

For the Tar Heels to go from a first lady in Sally Brown who just wanted to make everyone delicious homemade cookies to 24-year-old Hudson, wow. 

Hudson is the talk of football Twitter’s underbelly this week after she cut off Belichick mid-interview with CBS when the Coach was promoting his new book, The Art of Winning. When the host asked Belichick how he and his girlfriend met she interrupted with, “we’re not talking about this.”

"We're not talking about this."

Jordon Hudson interrupts Bill Belichick's CBS Sunday interview when he's asked how they met 😳 pic.twitter.com/LvncZ88UVY

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) April 27, 2025

Belichick insiders told the New York Post the relationship is “a runaway train.” It’s obvious Hudson is the conductor, and I’m jumping on board to see what happens. What could go wrong?

Ryan Day and Ohio State: Staying Married for the Kids?

Ryan Day and Ohio State just won a National Championship, sadly, Texas fans remember that all too well. Yet the Coach and fanbase still seem to hate each other. Day resents the Buckeye fans for never being grateful; he’s 70-10 in Columbus with a championship after all. Buckeyes fans loathe the fact Day can’t beat Michigan, he’s a paltry 1-4 against the Wolverines. 

The title seemed to be a temporary band-aid on an acrimonious relationship. If Texas, Steve Sarkisian, and Arch Manning roll the Buckeyes in Week One, only to have them lose to Sherrone Moore and the maize and blue again in The Game, it’ll be interesting to see who throws whose stuff onto the front lawn first.

Texas Tech: Renting Conference Superiority

The Red Raiders’ portal approach is like the guy who is flashing stacks of hundred-dollar bills at the casino. He’s either going to keep winning big or get sucker punched. In a wide-open conference, Joey McGuire and his NIL power brokers are trying to rent assurances. 

We’ve never seen such a brazen attempt to game the system as the current approach on the Llano Estacado. Spike Dykes once said he felt good about gaining a recruit’s commitment if they could get said player to actually visit campus. Kids didn’t want to always visit Texas Tech because of what they had heard about it or the distance from home. But I guess the deterring effect of the dust, wind, and cow smell of Hub City is lessened when you build your roster on one-year rentals who will only be there a short time.

Edge David Bailey from Stanford, nose Lee Hunter from UCF, RB Quinten Joyner from USC by way of Manor, all headline the number one portal class made up of 21 newcomers. Not to mention the return of prodigal son Micah Hudson. But yet, everything still rests on an uncertain head coach in McGuire, who is 23-16 in his three years on the South Plains. The Red Raiders have a quarterback competition afoot with Behren Morton and Will Hammond as well. It truly is a make or break year for the program and coach who once declared: “everything runs through Lubbock.”

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Many call the current state of college football the Wild Wild West. It’s clear for 2025, that term is renting a place in Lubbock, Texas.