College football fans have plenty to look forward to with a packed schedule of exciting matchups before September even starts.

Though the 2025 college football season is just a few days away, hope still springs eternal among most fanbases. That veneer of offseason optimism has yet to wear off. All of the positive training camp reports and preseason rankings have bolstered that positive outlook.

The Texas Longhorns enter the 2025 season as the top team in the country. Led by Steve Sarkisian, the SEC newcomer looks to make waves with an expanded College Football Playoff

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With Monday's AP Poll Top 25 release -- the first ahead of the 2025 season -- Texas made more history ahead of a highly anticipated campaign. The Longhorns came in at No. 1, earning 25 of the 65 first-place votes,

There have been regular AP top 25 college football rankings dating back to 1936, but the preseason poll is a newer innovation, first appearing in 1950. Then as

During her first year as a voter on the AP college football panel, Nicole Auerbach takes a deep dive into the thought process behind her ballot for the Top 25 college football preseason rankings.