The 2025 university football season quickly approaches, which means walking towards a potential University football playoffs The offer began. The 12 team format will be used for the second season, with notable changes.
The format of the university football playoffs of this season will pass to a serial model of seeds, which means that the best four teams in the final classification of the CFP will receive a bye in the first round. The changes come after the selection committee was criticized when last season’s final rankings saw the ninth Wooden state (Mountain West) and the 12th row Arizona State (Big 12) garnishes the Byes in the first round as champions of the conference.
With these changes in mind, Athlon Sports recently attempted to predict the series fields for this season, as well as the entire support and the national champion. The expected offers of each conference decompose as follows: dry (4), Big Ten (3), ACC (2), Big 12 (1), Mountain West (1), Independent (1).
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Byes in the first round:
Seed n ° 1 – Texas Longhorns (Sugar)
The Texas should enjoy its best season still under the head coach Steve Sarkisian, if the predictions of Athlon Sports are realized. The Longhorns went to the last two playoffs of university football, and all the signs indicate a third consecutive appearance for Texas in 2025.
The largest question mark for then Longhorns is under the center. Arc manning Little experience as a quarter-back leaving for the college level, but should be one of the best quarters of the country this season. If it is up to its expectations, Texas will be difficult to bet against this fall.
A seeded n ° 2 in the playoffs of university football means that Penn State succeeded in the bump by beating not only one, if not Oregon and the Ohio State during the regular season. But that would most likely mean that nittany lions are Big Ten champions for the first time since 2016.
A large part of the expectations of Penn State will be based on the performance of the quarter-Arrière Drew Allar This season. By opting to return to school instead of becoming a professional, ALLAR led its program to the playoffs last season and figures to do it again in 2025.
Seed n ° 3 – Clemson Tigers (Orange Bowl)
Clemson was back in the university football playoffs for the first time since 2019 last season. By beating SMU in the ACC championship match, the Tigers forced their way in the last field of 12 with the victory. They became the first team of three defeats to make the CFP.
Athlon Sports does not expect the tigers to taste the defeat that often this fall, and this is supported by their third more sowing in their predictions in playoffs. Like Texas and Penn State, Clemson Quarterback Cade Klubnik Will be under a microscope this season with something less than a CFP berth being considered a disappointment.
According to Athlon Sports. It will be the very first appearance in the playoffs of university football for the Wildcats in seventh year under the Chris Klieman head coach.
Having won nine games or more in each of the last three seasons, the Kansas State seems ready to take the next step in 2025. The Wildcats will not only have a Bye in the first round, but they are also the only representative of the Big 12 of this prediction.
Games in the first round (campus sites):
Seed n ° 9 Alabama to the seed n ° 8 Lsu
No scenario is necessary for a confrontation between the Crimson Tide and the Tigers in the university football playoffs. These two long -standing rivals of the SEC will also play during the regular season on November 18 in Tuscaloosa. In this prediction, LSU would be the home team.
The last time these two teams met came during the regular season of 2024. The Alabama beat LSU in Baton Rouge 42-13.
This 5-12 seed confrontation would be a very first meeting between these two programs. With Boisse State which should repeat itself as a representative of the group of 6 in the play -offs of university football and MWC champion, they are faced with rigid competition on the road against the reigning national champions.
Although it has been planned to return to the CFP, for the second consecutive season, the Ohio State would miss a Bye in the first round. It turned out to be a non-problem for possible CFP champions, but it is interesting to see the nittany lions selected above the buckeyes in this support.
Seed n ° 11 Miami to seed n ° 6 Georgia
Carson Beck Against his old team would undoubtedly be the most intriguing scenario in this support. A year after having led the Bulldogs to a CFP offer, although he was injured before in the title of the dry title, Beck’s return to Athens in another written uniform himself.
Miami narrowly missed the CFP last season, and getting there this season would be a major boost to the reputation of head coach Mario Cristobal in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Georgia has been trying to win its third national title since 2021.
The overall seeded n ° 1 of last season against the possible national final would make an interesting match in the first round. Despite the success of these two programs in the past, it would be the third time in the story they have met on grill and first since 1982.
Oregon has never beaten Notre Dame. Fighting Irish won the first meeting in 1976 before the second meeting several years later. This match, played in Eugene, ended with an equality of 13-13.
National champion planned
Athlon Sports predicts the Texas Longhorns to win the 2025 national championships. The Longhorns not only win the seeded n ° 1 in the prediction of publication, but also make them eliminate LSU in the Sugar Bowl, Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, and Penn State in the championship match of the SHOALING SHEAL FOOTBALL.
Victory in the national title would be the first for Steve Sarkisian as a chief coach. It would also be the first championship for the program since Mack Brown led them to the BCS league match in 2009. The Texas crossed the final match last season, losing against Ohio State in a heartbreaking way in the national semi-final.