The Athletic's Stewart Mandel is a preseason Penn State believer, placing the Nittany Lions atop his too-early top 25 for 2025. "I'm skeptical they can actually pull it off," Mandel writes, "but on paper, James Franklin's team deserves that status given how many players are returning."

Ohio State captured its first national championship since 2014 with a win over Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship, but the Buckeyes' path to a preseason No. 1 ranking in 2025 won't be easy.

It's never too early to look ahead to the next college football season. Here's a look at the top matchups of a loaded schedule to start 2025:

All scheduled NCAAF games played in week 1 Postseason, Dec 13 - Jan 21, 2025 on ESPN. Includes game times, TV listings and ticket information.

With Ohio State winning the national championship over Notre Dame on Monday night, it’s now time to focus on the 12-team playoff for next season. In today’s Tuesdays With Gorney, Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney takes his shot to seed the 12 teams that will fill the College Football Playoff bracket next season.

Year 2 of the 12-team College Football Playoff era in the 2025 season. In the way-too-early top 25, you shouldn't need formal introductions. We are referring to the stars of tomorrow, today. Arch Manning (finally) takes over at quarterback for Texas as the Longhorns sit as out preseason No.

With the college football season complete, it's time to evaluate the performance of schools in the Bowl Subdivision. Our letter grades for each team.

Six Texas Longhorns, the second-most of any school, made the outlet’s list of top players from the 2024-2025 season. SMU, Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Texas

The CFP will never likely surpass the NFL in the attention economy, but the march through the first 12-team Playoff has been a positive one.

Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.

The Ohio State football program captured history with claiming the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship when the four-team model made its debut in the 2014 season. A decade later,