2025 quick facts
2024 record: 8-2 overall
2024 American Rivers Conference finish: third (6-2)
Starters returning: 4 offense, 5 defense, 2 specialty
Starters lost: 7 offense, 6 defense, 6 specialty
Letterwinners lost/returning: 34/36
Returning all-conference players: 5 (first team, Nick Bandy, DL; Gavin Smith, DB - second team, Jase Grunder, RB; Maximus Reitano, OL; Cole Clark, LB)
2025 captains: Nick Bandy, Cole Clark, Ben DeMuelenaere, Keegan Glover, Hunter Hoffman, Maximus Reitano, Gavin Smith
Conference championships: 32 (20 in past 41 years)
Undefeated regular seasons: 17
NCAA Division III national championships: 1 (1974)
NCAA Division III playoff berths: 22 (ranks fourth among Division III schools, 20 in past 35 years)
Last NCAA Division III playoff appearance: 2021 (L, quarterfinals)
All-time NCAA playoff record: 24-21
Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl appearances: 3 (first, 1974; second, 1984, 1988)
All-Americans: 46
All-time W-L record: 666-335-26 (.648)
Central’s record at Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium (opened in 1977): 209-49 (.810)
