This week’s College Football Playoff committee Top 25 is set. Ohio State once again is No. 1, followed by Indiana, Georgia and Texas Tech. If the brackets were set by tonight’s rankings, these would be the first-round pairings.

The college football early signing period is here. Here are the top 10 ranked teams of the 2025 recruiting cycle.

With the 2026 early signing period underway, here's what you need to know about where Big Ten programs stand in the college football recruiting rankings:

The college football transfer portal's new Jan. 2-16 window is still weeks away, but the 2025-26 cycle is already moving. Teams have built portal boards for months, players are lining up to enter, and behind the scenes, discussions are happening that make the calendar feel symbolic more than binding.

Six of the nine Football Bowl Subdivision conference championship games will be rematches of regular-season meetings.

The latest College Football Playoff rankings will be released on Tuesday night, but a more important announcement was made on Tuesday morning. And that announcement is the unveiling of the six flavored Pop-Tarts that will be present for the 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl. Furthermore, the six Pop-Tarts will be split up into two teams.

That's only the start of the list of quarterbacks who fell short of lofty expectations. Others include Florida's DJ Lagway, Boise State's Maddux Madsen, Iowa State's Rocco Becht and Kansas State's Avery Johnson. And when you factor in projected stars who missed significant time with injuries, the list grows even longer.

LSU placed a pricetag of $91 million on its new coach, Lane Kiffin. Now, the College Football Playoff selection committee gets to place a value of its own on Kiffin when it decides where to rank his old school, Mississippi, in its latest top 25.