2025 Season: Are You Ready For Some Football?

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2023: Cheated (Cheaters)
2024: Greatest run in cfb history (OSU)
2025: Frauds (Ped)

 

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RJ Young sends clear message on Ohio State, Indiana after Hoosiers' win over Oregon

RJ Young sees the Ohio State Buckeyes and Indiana Hoosiers as the clear No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country.

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RJ Young sends clear message on Ohio State, Indiana after Hoosiers' win over Oregon​

The Ohio State Buckeyes are the clear No. 1 team in the country. The Indiana Hoosiers are the clear No. 2 team. FOX Sports' RJ Young (article below) broke down the two Big Ten teams' place atop their conference and the country.

Young had several similes to describe OSU's status atop the sport. He also showed love for the team's dynamic passing game, led by Julian Sayin, and the team's strong defense under first-year defensive coordinator Matt Patricia.

Ohio State defeated the Illinois Fighting Illini 34-16 in Champaign, while Indiana knocked off the Oregon Ducks 30-20 in Eugene. Young predicts the two teams playing in the Big Ten Championship Game.

"That's 10 in a row for the Buckeyes — and counting," Young wrote.

"Ten straight games where teams show up with a bat to play Ohio State, thinking they can hack it — only to get cracked with it. And you can’t expect Illinois to be better with a bat than the Detroit Tigers in a winner-take-all game.

"Ohio State remains the team to beat in college football, now 6-0. That's six times this season the Buckeyes have punched a concave crater in their opponent’s chest — like Ox Baker throwing a cross with Radio Raheem's rings on.

"Julian Sayin threw for 166 yards and two touchdowns, while Ohio State's defense continued to impress with three turnovers that all resulted in touchdowns.

"The Buckeyes are now allowing 6.8 points per game, which is the fewest points allowed by an Ohio State program through six games since 1975.

"The Hoosiers went to Autzen and did what no other Big Ten team had been able to in the regular season since Oregon joined the conference: beat the Ducks.

"In doing so, Indiana cemented itself as the second-best team in the Big Ten — and is now on a collision course with Ohio State to play for the conference title, if both teams can run the table."

Ryan Day has done a bang-up job replacing a team that lost most of its top players to the NFL draft, with others running out of eligibility. Curt Cignetti has done one of the greatest turnarounds in the sport's history, lifting an IU squad not usually known for competing for much to the College Football Playoff.

Beating the Ducks is big-time. IU has arrived.

Just not where OSU resides just yet.

2025 College Football Rankings: Ohio State Steady, Indiana Soars, Oregon Falls | FOX Sports

FOX Sports' RJ Young reveals his Top 25 rankings after Week 7, with Indiana on the rise and Oregon falling.

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2025 College Football Rankings: Ohio State Steady, Indiana Soars, Oregon Falls​

With that, here's a look at my Top 25 rankings following Week 7 of the college football season:

1. Ohio State (6-0)​

Week 7 result: Defeated Illinois, 34-16
Julian Sayin threw for 166 yards and two touchdowns, while Ohio State's defense continued to impress with three turnovers that all resulted in touchdowns.
The Buckeyes are now allowing 6.8 points per game, which is the fewest points allowed by an Ohio State program through six games since 1975.

2. Indiana ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(6-0)​

Week 7 result: Defeated Oregon, 30-20
The Hoosiers went to Autzen and did what no other Big Ten team had been able to in the regular season since Oregon joined the conference: beat the Ducks.
In doing so, Indiana cemented itself as the second-best team in the Big Ten — and is now on a collision course with Ohio State to play for the conference title, if both teams can run the table.

3. Miami (Fla.) (5-0)​

Week 7 result: Idle

 

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Jeremiah Smith Confident in 2025 Buckeyes: “This Team Is Better Than Last Year’s Team”​

"This year's team, we want to make a name for ourselves. We want to go down in the history books as the team (to win national titles) back-to-back," Smith told former Ohio State running back Beanie Wells. "I feel like this team is better than last year's team. That's what I feel."

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I was having a convo with a buddy about this. We were saying that this was going to be the year that the rest of CFB is going to pray that OSU is down. Because 2026 and on could see an unprecedented run. But the fact that they're ahead of schedule this year, and could win it all again, shoudl terrify the rest of the country. This year, Sayin was supposed to be bad and terrified against Texas, OSU was supposed to be tested against Washington and Illinois, many analysts had OSU losing to Ped St and the consensus was that OSU was a 2 loss team. That narrative has now been tossed out of the window and an undefeated OSU is easily attainable. And while other teams have a ton of questions, OSU has only gotten stronger. And is doing this with a bunch of underclassmen

 

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I don't want to dismiss IU, but the only argument I keep hearing for them over OSU is that they beat Illinois by 50pts and OSU didn't. And then some people are saying that they beat Oregon in Eugene, and OSU didn't(not realizing that that was last year with a different team).
IU played 3 of the worst teams in CFB to start(I'd say that Ohio would dominate all 3 of those teams), they beat Iowa who just learned to use the forward pass, and a yearly mid MSU team. It's safe to say that they won't face a team this year with the firepower of OSU, and with a defense as dominant as OSU's