College Football Playoff discussion tends to dominate the sport’s discourse these days, especially with a 12-team field and additional expansion likely on the horizon. However, at its core, college football is about bragging rights, rivalries and things like state supremacy.
In some places, state supremacy is clear-cut entering the 2025 season. Pitt should be bowl-bound again under veteran coach Pat Narduzzi, but Penn State is comfortably the Keystone State’s top squad. Other states — such as Nebraska and Wisconsin — feature just one Division 1 school, which makes them state champions by default.
It’s a much tougher call in places like Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Virginia. When deciding who the best team in each state is for the 2025 season, head-to-head results from last season offer a starting point. But this is about who will be the best in 2025, and that requires some forward thinking.
BYU and South Carolina fans probably won’t appreciate that their logos’ exclusion from this graphic after they won head-to-head meetings vs. in-state rivals in 2024. But Utah is set for a bounce-back season, and Clemson’s national-title hopes hold more water than the Gamecocks’.
Now that we’ve tipped our hand on a couple of the tighest races, let’s dive in and take a look at the best college football team in each state entering the 2025 season.
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Author : David Cobb
Publish date : 2025-08-11 12:03:00
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