Week 1 2025 Top 25 College Football
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These college football teams have to get through the most ranked opponents on their schedule when looking at the preseason AP top 25 poll for 2025.
The first PFF top 25 poll is out, and it arrives not long after the Coaches Poll and the official preseason AP Poll. It has some incredibly shocking changes, though.
College football fans have plenty to look forward to with a packed schedule of exciting matchups before September even starts
USC and UCLA did not reach the top 25 in the first poll from AP voters ahead of the 2025 season. Penn State is No. 2 in the closest preseason vote since 1998, and defending champion Ohio State is
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Texas is No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25 for first time, edging Penn St, Ohio St; 10 SEC teams ranked
Texas received 25 first-place votes and 1,552 points to give the Southeastern Conference the preseason No. 1 team for a record fifth straight year. The Nittany Lions got 23 first-place votes and 1,547 points for their highest preseason ranking since they were No. 1 to open the 1997 season.
In closest preseason vote since 1998, Texas edges out Penn State to claim top spot in AP 25 college football poll. Here are the complete rankings.
Notre Dame football opens 2025 as the No. 6 ranked team in the land. But here's four reasons why the Irish won't stay at that spot.
Last season, Miami got to enjoy Cam Ward’s fifth year, which he earned due to the NCAA’s 2020-season eligibility rules. Miami’s now replacing Ward with Georgia transfer Carson Beck, which means QB shrugs for both the No. 5 Dawgs and No. 10 Canes. (Beck is himself a millionth-year senior, because this era’s not quite done yet.)
It's been nearly seven full years since the West Virginia Mountaineers were ranked inside the AP Top 25, which gives them the second-longest drought of any Power Four team in college football behind only Rutgers.
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