The 1985 USFL season was the third and final season of the United States Football League (USFL), and the last by a league using that name until the 2022 USFL season.

Bandits

Bulls

Generals

Renegades

Stallions

Showboats

Stars

Breakers

Express

Gamblers

Gold

Gunslingers

Invaders

Outlaws

USFL teams: Western, Eastern

Adopted instant replay for the 1985 season. Under the instant-replay rule, a team may have one appeal per half in three situations:^[1]

• A fumble or no-fumble situation.
• Whether a pass is complete, incomplete or intercepted.
• Whether the ball has penetrated the goal line.

The team asking for the replay would lose a time out if they were wrong. The replay was available only in games televised by ABC.^[2]

• Pittsburgh Maulers fold.
• Chicago Blitz suspend operations.
• Michigan Panthers merge with the Oakland Invaders.
• Arizona Wranglers and the Oklahoma Outlaws merge and create the Arizona Outlaws.
• New Orleans Breakers relocate to Portland, Oregon as the Portland Breakers.
• Philadelphia Stars move games to College Park, Maryland, with plans to move to Baltimore in 1986, team is renamed the Baltimore Stars.
• Washington Federals are sold and relocate to Orlando, Florida, as the Orlando Renegades.

August 22, 1984, the owners voted to move to a fall schedule starting in 1986.

Harry Usher became the new commissioner of the USFL in January 1985.

The USFL and the United States Football League Players Association (USFLPA) agreed on a four-year agreement in March 1985.^[3]

On April 29, 1985, the league's owners voted 13–2 to reaffirm their decision to begin playing a fall season in 1986.^[4]

W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against

 y  = Division Champion,  x  = Wild Card

New Jersey finished ahead of Memphis based on a head-to-head tiebreaker advantage (2-0-0).

• 1985 NFL season