Early look at 2025 College Football Playoff, Heisman Trophy and conference title predictions
Week 1 of the 2025 college football season features a loaded slate, including LSU at Clemson, Notre Dame at Miami and Alabama at Florida State, among others. LSU-Clemson could be a top-five matchup, as could the biggest headliner: Manning and Texas visiting Ohio State in a matchup of the 2024 national champion and our early 2025 favorite.
College Football Playoff predictions: Which teams return in 2025 from Ohio State to Clemson?
In or out? A verdict on which of the College Football Playoff qualifiers will be back in the bracket next season.
College football rankings: Overrated, underrated teams in early 2025 polls
Early college football rankings for 2025 are out in full force before the start of spring practice. The first year of College Football Playoff expansion went out with a bang thanks to Ohio State's heroics and now early opinions are in for next fall, narratives already forming around a handful of teams expected to be in the national conversation.
2025-26 College Football Playoff schedule, dates, TV channel, sites
Here's the complete schedule for the College Football Playoff for the 2025-26 season, including game dates, how to watch and teams. This is the second year of the 12-team playoff.
ESPN Predicts Next Season's College Football Playoff: Did LSU Football Make It?
It's never too early to look ahead to next season's College Football Playoff despite the Ohio State Buckeyes capturing the National Championship just weeks ago.
How should the College Football Playoff work? Debating seeding, selection and more changes
The first 12-team Playoff had a lot of great moments. It could also use some tweaks. In the short term, leaders are unlikely to make major changes to the format for the 2025 season. The bigger stuff is more likely to come in 2026, when the new contracts kick in and the SEC and Big Ten basically get to do whatever they want.
ESPN Predicts Surprising Team to Make College Football Playoff Next Season
A championship in 2025 would guarantee the Cardinals a spot in the College Football Playoff for the first time. The Cardinals' highest finish in the CFP era was No. 13 in 2016, the same year quarterback Lamar Jackson won the Heisman Trophy. The Cardinals will kick off their season by facing Eastern Kentucky on Saturday, August 30.
Why expanding the College Football Playoff worked – and what still needs to be fixed
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.
WVU Played in Two of the Best College Football Games of 2024, per ESPN
The 2024 football season isn't going to go down as a memorable one for the West Virginia Mountaineers, who ended the year with a 6-7 record. But according to ES
Ohio State's Historic Victory and the Dawn of a New College Football Era
Ohio State has made history! The Buckeyes have claimed their ninth national championship, defeating Notre Dame 34–23 in the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff National Championship. From an underdog No.
Texas, Georgia top list of 2024 College Football Playoff losers with best shot at winning it all in 2025
The 11 programs that tasted the College Football Playoff but came up short in 2024 are already yearning for a return trip.
U.S. Senate congratulates Ohio State football on 2025 national title
Freshman Ohio Senators Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted introduced the resolution honoring Buckeyes' championship win.
How one radical change to the ACC championship could impact SMU football
After SMU’s dream season had been snapped back to reality with a 38-10 defeat at frigid Penn State, head coach Rhett Lashlee ...
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College Football Betting Picks: 2024 Bowl Results and 2024 Final Numbers
Mike's CFB betting results against the spread for the 2024 season and bowl games. How did the bowls go? Who were his best and ...
Ohio State's Ryan Day 'third base' narrative, CFP expansion lead college football mailbag
The narrative that Ryan Day's career began on third base discounts his achievements. He got Ohio State to home plate. Day deserves his flowers.
Playoff or bust for LSU’s Brian Kelly? Plus, Penn State doubles down with Jim Knowles hire
Today, we’re talking about the offseason’s early winner, Brian Kelly’s do-or-die year at LSU and changes to the College ...
20 transfer portal additios who will decide the 2025 season
With some of the best players in the country joining new schools in 2025, who will have the biggest impact on next year's College Football Playoff?
Grading College Football's First-Year Head Coaches for 2024
The 2024 college football season featured 31 new coaches at FBS programs, and with the campaign completed, it's time to grade ...