2025 College Football Thread

[Joe Bear]

It's time. 

 

[Joe Bear]

ESPN kicks off its stupid lists with one including a couple teams with less than no shot: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45716791/cfp-2025-32-teams-make-college-football-playoff

[Jay Roosevelt]

My CFP predictions. I hope I've got the new seeding rules right.

Conference champions have the conference logo in the bottom corner of their box in their first game.

[PNW_PantherMan]

14 minutes ago, Jay Roosevelt said:

My CFP predictions. I hope I've got the new seeding rules right.

Conference champions have the conference logo in the bottom corner of their box in their first game.

??? Where's the Florida Gators?  Their fans assured me they were going all the way.

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, Jay Roosevelt said:

My CFP predictions. I hope I've got the new seeding rules right.

Conference champions have the conference logo in the bottom corner of their box in their first game.

No real gripes outside of you accidentally clicking the wrong box at the very end.  I assume you meant to have Clemson there.

Only change I would feel forced to make is bumping one of those SEC teams in favor of LSU.  And if LSU doesn't make it, dumbo Kelly is getting canned. And you can basically knock any of them out minus UGA.  I actually got Texas as being the biggest letdown team in 2025

[LinvilleGorge]

The worst part about the 8 team format is that they're gonna find a way to get ND in there every year. The best thing about that is that we get to see ND get skull drug by a decent team in the playoffs every year. Every time they've been out on the playoffs they've gotten beat like an old rug.

[csx]

29 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The worst part about the 8 team format is that they're gonna find a way to get ND in there every year. The best thing about that is that we get to see ND get skull drug by a decent team in the playoffs every year. Every time they've been out on the playoffs they've gotten beat like an old rug.

They won 3 playoffs games just this year in which they beat the #2 seed along the way.

[CRA]

1 hour ago, csx said:

They won 3 playoffs games just this year in which they beat the #2 seed along the way.

Worst thing to ever happen.  Because they were curb stomped every year……then they caught the expanded bracket and won some games.   So now ND has a spot for eternity pending not horrific 

ND been part of 3 of the more uncompetitive games in the CFP era.  1 win over a team that qualified under the OG model 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, csx said:

They won 3 playoffs games just this year in which they beat the #2 seed along the way.

The #2 seed playing their backup QB.

[Jay Roosevelt]

I somehow forgot Ohio State in my previous predictions so I've updated it:

Have to say, while I doubt it'd be a very competitive game, a Navy-Notre Dame matchup in the CFP would be pretty cool to see.

Edited August 5 by Jay Roosevelt