The first College Football Playoff poll of the 2025 season is out!
Unsurprisingly, Ohio State, Indiana, and Texas A&M lead the way in the CFP odds following the release of the first set of rankings. How did the new poll affect the rest of the contenders? How far did Miami fall after a disappointing ranking?
Let’s look at the latest CFP odds as the first official batch of rankings is out.
Oct 25, 2025; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide offensive lineman Kad...
#Ranking season is finally upon us, and Alabama placed 4th in the first CFP bracket of the year. The top 4 were about as chalk as you could possibly expect. Ohio State was the easy #1 team, as they’ve obliterated everyone they’ve played. Indiana and Texas A&M were fairly interchangeable at 2 and 3. The […]
The first College Football Playoff rankings were released Tuesday night and IU football is No. 2. The initial top 12: 1. Ohio State; 2. Indiana; 3. Texas A&M; 4. Alabama; 5. Georgia; 6. Ole Miss; 7. BYU; 8. Texas Tech; ...
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Happy Monday, everyone. Alabama remains 4th in the polls following their win over South Carolina as all three teams ranked above them held serve. One of those teams is Texas A&M, which somehow blew out LSU in Baton Rouge despite the game being played at night. LSU coach Brian Kelly’s tenure did not survive. Kelly’s […]
With Alabama’s second bye week upon us, it’s time to take stock nationally. We have more than enough data at this point in the season. Conference standings are shaking out. And there is a queue beginning to form for the national title. We seem to say this every year, but in 2025, it really is […]
Week 9 was not nearly as wild as previous Saturdays this season. The top ten remains the same, just in a slightly different order. Alabama, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, and Virginia all pulled out close wins on the road. Miami fell one spot after its blowout of Stanford. One of the Canes’ best wins, USF, blew […]
Give South Carolina credit. I had wondered coming into the game how much juice they’d have left, having lost two straight and four overall. There isn’t much left for them to play for other than pride, but they showed some last night and had Alabama squarely on the ropes. It was their Homecoming game so […]
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How to Football: Adam Henderson Morning Slate UCLA vs. #2 Indiana, 11:00 A.M., FOX Syracuse vs. #7 Georgia Tech, 11:00 A.M., ESPN #8 Ole Miss vs. #13 Oklahoma, 11:00 A.M., ABC #18 South Florida vs. Memphis, 11:00 A.M., ESPN2 Afternoon Slate #4 Alabama vs. South Carolina, 2:30 P.M., ABC #15 Missouri vs. #10 Vanderbilt, 2:30 […]
Just over halfway through the 2025 football season, we’re seeing one of the weirdest, wildest seasons since the fabled days of 2007. Florida State beat Alabama in week one before then imploding like rebar-less concrete. Vanderbilt is ranked in the top 10 with a possible Heisman candidate at quarterback. Indiana is the second-ranked team in […]
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Look, South Carolina fans are organizing chants mid-game to fire offensive coordinator Mike Shula… So, uhh…. things are going swimmingly in Columbia. Last year, Dowell Loggains came into USC after being an NFL OC from 2012-2020 and brought a level of professionalism with a fairly standard pro-spread offense that saw a breakout season from QB […]
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Greetings, BBN! The first week of 100% participation in conference action absolutely delivered on Saturday. With no byes and no non-conference games, the eighth week of the season whittled our unbeaten numbers down even more. Texas A&M and Alabama are the league’s last teams unbeaten in conference play, and the Aggies are the last team […]
Happy, happy Monday, everyone. We got an extra “happy” in there this morning because Alabama won while all of the teams featured in the special lyrics to Dixieland Delight lost. What a weekend, eh? Alabama has now fully made up for the loss in the season opener, ranked four spots ahead of where they were […]
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