The 2025 college football season officially kicks off in late August, but it's never too early to project the top 25 teams for the upcoming year. With the transfer portal closed and nearly all roster movement completed for '25, all 136 teams have a clear outlook on strengths, weaknesses, and schedule difficulty for the upcoming season.

College football teams are coming out of spring practice and on the other side of the spring transfer portal window, marking an ideal time for ESPN to update its top 25 rankings. As expected, there was a heavy dose of the SEC and Big Ten,

Texas' Arch Manning is No. 1 in Sporting News' list of the top 25 FBS quarterbacks for 2025. There is no reason to make the hype a half-measure with Manning – who made two starts last season and offered a glimpse of the skill set that will have the attention of NFL scouts for perhaps the next two seasons. Is that too much, too soon?