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ATHENS, Ga. — The 2025 college football season will soon off with fireworks, featuring eye-catching Week 1 showdowns like No.

The Wisconsin Badgers were On3's Brett McMurphy's No. 5 most overrated team in the preseason AP Poll since 2014.

Both are coming off matching 9-4 seasons, each with a 5-3 conference record in the rugged SEC. Alabama should be favored in every game ahead of this one except for a late September visit to No. 5 ...

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South Carolina made the preseason AP Top 25 football rankings for the first time since 2014 despite the uncertainty regarding ...

Our man Tom Murphy got it right. He was 1 of 11 voters in the Associated Press football poll to put Ohio State at No. 1.

The AP Top 25 college football preseason poll leads with the Texas Longhorns and Penn State ranking at No. 1 and No. 2. Read ...

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The AP Top 25 college football poll preseason rankings are out now. Texas took the No. 1 spot for the first time in an opening poll, narrowly edging out Penn State by just five points in the closest ...