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College football rankings: Ohio State, Texas, Penn State lead post-spring top 25 ahead of 2025 season

Looking ahead to the top teams entering the 2025 season as spring practices wrap and the transfer portal closes
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College football rankings: Ohio State, Texas, Penn State lead post-spring top 25 ahead of 2025 season​

Looking ahead to the top teams entering the 2025 season as spring practices wrap and the transfer portal closes​

1. Ohio State
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Clemson
5. Georgia
6. Oregon
7. Notre Dame
8. LSU
9. Alabama
10. Florida
11. Miami
12. Illinois
13. Kansas State
14. BYU
15. TCU
16. Michigan
17. Arizona State
18. Oklahoma
19. Iowa State
20. Tennessee
21. Texas Tech
22. South Carolina
23. Louisville
24. SMU
25. Auburn

Joel Klatt is taking another Big Ten team over the Ohio State Buckeyes in his latest college football rankings for 2025 season​

Following the spring football period, Fox analyst Joel Klatt has another Big Ten team ranked ahead of the Buckeyes. Klatt lists Penn State at No. 1, followed by Texas at No. 2, with Ohio State coming in at No. 3. Oregon and Clemson round out the top five at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively.



Other Big Ten teams in Klatt’s rankings include Illinois (No. 10), Michigan (No. 12), Indiana (No. 21), and Iowa (No. 23).

Penn State returns quarterback Drew Allar along with many starters from a team that made the College Football Playoff last season. The Nittany Lions also added wide receivers through the transfer portal, including Trebor Pena from Syracuse. Additionally, Jim Knowles made a lateral move to become Penn State’s new defensive coordinator.

Julian Sayin’s performance—assuming he earns the QB1 spot—will be a major factor in determining just how good Ohio State can be in 2025. The defense may take a step back, so the offense will need to carry more of the load. While Ohio State has recently had the upper hand against Penn State, a matchup between these two teams in their current projected rankings would be highly anticipated.

Regardless, the Big Ten is once again shaping up to be a powerhouse in 2025. Even a program like USC appears to be trending upward.
 
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Updated SP+ rankings for every FBS team, plus an early look at CFP contenders

How the spring portal and other changes have impacted the numbers for the coming season.
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Spring update of 2025 college football SP+ rankings for every FBS team​

In 93 days, it all starts again. From Week 0's Irish Farmageddon (Iowa State vs. Kansas State in Dublin) in mid-August to the national title game in late January, the 2025 college football season looms. And with transfer portal movement finally slowing down -- including spring moves, FBS teams have averaged more than 19 transfers this offseason, up more than 40% from last season -- we can finally take a semi-confident look at what's in store this fall. That means updating our numbers.

Below are updated SP+ projections for the coming season. A quick reminder: Preseason projections are based on three factors.

1. Returning production. The returning production numbers are based on rosters I have updated as much as humanly possible to account for transfers and attrition. The combination of last year's SP+ ratings and adjustments based on returning production makes up about two-thirds of the projections formula.

2. Recent recruiting. This piece informs us of the caliber of a team's potential replacements (and/or new stars) in the lineup. It is determined by the past few years of recruiting rankings in diminishing order (meaning the most recent class carries the most weight). This is also impacted by the recruiting rankings of incoming transfers, an acknowledgment that the art of roster management is now heavily dictated by the transfer portal.

3. Recent history. Using a sliver of information from the previous four seasons or so gives us a good measure of overall program health.

(One other reminder: SP+ is a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking, and along those lines, these projections aren't intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the season. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather.)

Here are the updated rankings:

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College football rankings: Ohio State, Texas, Penn State lead post-spring top 25 ahead of 2025 season

Looking ahead to the top teams entering the 2025 season as spring practices wrap and the transfer portal closes
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College football rankings: Ohio State, Texas, Penn State lead post-spring top 25 ahead of 2025 season​

Looking ahead to the top teams entering the 2025 season as spring practices wrap and the transfer portal closes​

1. Ohio State
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Clemson
5. Georgia
6. Oregon
7. Notre Dame
8. LSU
9. Alabama
10. Florida
11. Miami
12. Illinois
13. Kansas State
14. BYU
15. TCU
16. Michigan
17. Arizona State
18. Oklahoma
19. Iowa State
20. Tennessee
21. Texas Tech
22. South Carolina
23. Louisville
24. SMU
25. Auburn

Joel Klatt is taking another Big Ten team over the Ohio State Buckeyes in his latest college football rankings for 2025 season​

Following the spring football period, Fox analyst Joel Klatt has another Big Ten team ranked ahead of the Buckeyes. Klatt lists Penn State at No. 1, followed by Texas at No. 2, with Ohio State coming in at No. 3. Oregon and Clemson round out the top five at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively.



Other Big Ten teams in Klatt’s rankings include Illinois (No. 10), Michigan (No. 12), Indiana (No. 21), and Iowa (No. 23).

Penn State returns quarterback Drew Allar along with many starters from a team that made the College Football Playoff last season. The Nittany Lions also added wide receivers through the transfer portal, including Trebor Pena from Syracuse. Additionally, Jim Knowles made a lateral move to become Penn State’s new defensive coordinator.

Julian Sayin’s performance—assuming he earns the QB1 spot—will be a major factor in determining just how good Ohio State can be in 2025. The defense may take a step back, so the offense will need to carry more of the load. While Ohio State has recently had the upper hand against Penn State, a matchup between these two teams in their current projected rankings would be highly anticipated.

Regardless, the Big Ten is once again shaping up to be a powerhouse in 2025. Even a program like USC appears to be trending upward.
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Klatt is a click-seeking idiot. Don't click his ratings.
 
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