Though the 2025 college football season is just a few days away, hope still springs eternal among most fanbases. That veneer of offseason optimism has yet to wear off. All of the positive training camp reports and preseason rankings have bolstered that positive outlook.
It is true that most teams that landed in the preseason AP Top 25 have plenty of reason for optimism. They were good enough to get ranked after all and, in the 12-team era, that puts a program squarely in the race for the College Football Playoff.
Not to rain on anybody’s parade, but there are two sides to the offseason outlook coin. No team is perfect, after all — as evidenced by the increased parity of first-place votes in the AP poll — and there’s always at least one thing to be worried about.
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So, with fall camp wrapping up and actual football right around the corner, it felt appropriate to analyze one reason for optimism, and one for concern, for each preseason top 25 team.
Optimism: The defense is…
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Author : Will Backus
Publish date : 2025-08-20 17:24:00
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