The Wiggum Scale: Rating 2025's Most Heartbreaking Moments
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
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 title, the Iron Bowl & the CFP National Championship
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a man. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm 40. |
| 0:12.6 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:15.1 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:16.7 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:17.6 | It's that woo-woo. |
| 0:19.2 | And now, down and tie. |
| 0:23.0 | Dan Rubinstein, my great and good friend, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:29.8 | Hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:31.6 | Hope things are warming up out there a little bit, starting to be a little bit nicer. |
| 0:35.8 | We had the one shining moment on Saturday when it was 68 degrees in sunny and then fell to a |
| 0:43.2 | real feel of 17 degrees yesterday. |
| 0:45.6 | I was on the Northwestern campus, actually. |
| 0:47.1 | I went and saw Northwestern Michigan tennis tie indoors, warm, free pizza. |
| 0:53.3 | What more could you need? |
| 0:55.5 | But it was a good weekend. |
| 0:56.6 | A good weekend nonetheless. |
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