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Springball is a wrap, and the 2025 college football season is a little more than three months away. It’s post-spring rankings season, and one of college football’s biggest voices released his post-spring top 25.
Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt shared his top 25 after spring ball, and it has an interesting look. When you examine the top 25, there is a lot of turnover at key positions for some of the teams that most expect to be among the best in college football this year.
Six teams in Klatt’s top 10 will feature new starting quarterbacks. In some instances, the expectation is that the new starters will upgrade the position. That will also be the case with the Oklahoma Sooners, who were included in Klatt’s top 25. The Sooners will face seven of Klatt’s top 25.
Here’s a look.
Drew Allar is really good. The Penn State defense is as well. But the Nittany Lions have struggled against good teams in the James Franklin era. Can this be the year they get over the hump?
I guess with question marks surrounding a number of the top 10 teams in the nation, someone has to be ranked No. 2, but this feels a bit rich for the Texas Longhorns. Arch Manning has a chance to be great but the Longhorns are turning over a lot of their offense.
Will Ohio State be good? Probably. Will they repeat as national champions? Doubtful. They have two of the best players in the nation in Jeremiah Smith and Caleb Downs but they lost so much talent and they’ll be relying on a new starter at quarterback.
Um… what? Sure, Dan Lanning is building a fantastic program in Eugene, but the Ducks aren’t as good as the team that won the Big Ten and earned the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff.
5. Clemson Tigers
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