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In the last month since the confetti fell on Ohio State’s national championship, the college football world has collectively turned its attention to the season ahead. The transfer portal activity has calmed, the coaching carousel is nearing its final rotations, and the league schedules have put games on the calendar to excite fans for upcoming season.
The 2025 college football schedule doesn’t have as much uncertainty has the previous season, because now we have seen one year with mega conferences and taken part in the 12-team College Football Playoff discussion. Expectations have been set on how the upcoming year will play out based on what we saw in 2024, which gives us the opportunity to identify the pivot points in the playoff race in 2025.
That’s our task today, looking at the entirety of the college football schedule as it has been announced and selecting one game from each week that will play a role in the playoff race. As we learned, the beginning of any CFP race starts with the conference title races and key nonconference games that can play a role in seeding decisions later in the season. There are also considerations regarding the at-large opportunities available to different conferences, and how that availability might impact the CFP stakes of each matchup.
So let’s dive in, from Week 0 to Week 14, with one game each week that will play a role in the CFP race.
We don’t have a lot of competition here with just four games on the Week 0 slate, but this rivalry game has played a role in the Big 12 title race before and is expected to be a key data point again in 2025. When you have a conference like the Big 12, where it’s possible to see four teams end up tied for first place in the standings, every head-to-head result…
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2025-02-14 18:29:00
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