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.

Miami edged ahead of Texas and climbed to No. 5 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday, its highest ranking since 2017, and Notre Dame, BYU and Texas A&M moved into the top 10.

Using AP Top 25 preseason polls from 2014 to 2023 and comparing them to final CFP rankings over the same period, I came up with a very unscientific “formula” for predicting a playoff bracket.

The unbeaten Ducks are atop the AP Top 25 for the fifth straight week, passing Texas as the No. 1 team for the most polls this season. They received all 62 first-place votes for the third week in ...

LSU is unranked for the first time in two years. The unbeaten Ducks are atop the AP Top 25 for the fifth straight week, passing Texas as the No. 1 team for the most polls this season.

At the AP, my job was to administer the poll, so I knew that as a first-time voter I'd be undertaking a challenge with no perfect answer.

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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.

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.

The Michigan football team is starting the season ranked No. 14 in the AP Poll, and it will make the College Football Playoff this season.