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.

Here we have our way-too-early 2025 college football rankings. These rankings can and likely will change by time I map out my preseason Associated Press top 25 ballot in August. But for now, here’s my initial crack at a top 25 for the 2025 season.

FOX Sports' RJ Young offers up his way-too-early top 25 rankings for the 2025 college football season, with Ohio State, Texas, Michigan and Colorado all in the mix.

The Big Ten schedule lines up as follows: At Washington, Minnesota, at Illinois, at Wisconsin, Penn State, at Purdue, UCLA, Rutgers, at Michigan. The Buckeyes have lost four straight to the Wolverines and will be in Ann Arbor on Nov. 29 looking to end that streak.

The 2024 college football season and the first 12-team College Football Playoff has officially come to a close with Ohio State winning the national championship over Notre Dame Monday night. With 215 days until the 2025 college football season kicks off,

Thanks to returns from Drew Allar, Nick Singleton, Kaytron Allen, Dani Dennis-Sutton, Zane Durant, and a whole bunch of others, Penn State is slated to b

Now that the 2024 season has concluded and the national champion has been crowned in the Ohio State Buckeyes, it’s never too early to start looking ahead to the 2025 season. That starts with our way-too-early top 25 rankings,