The AP Top 25 college football poll preseason rankings will be released Monday at noon EDT. A tradition since 1936, no organization has been ranking teams and naming a major college football national champion longer than the AP — and now you can follow live updates before and after the poll drops.

Before the AP top 25 reveals its preseason college football rankings, we take a shot at predicting the best teams in the country in 2025.

Some believe preseason college football rankings unfairly influence the season. We can’t find any evidence to back that up.

College Football Playoff discussion tends to dominate the sport's discourse these days, especially with a 12-team field and additional expansion likely on the horizon. However, at its core, college football is about bragging rights,

ESPN isn't waiting until the start of the 2025 college football season to rank every team in the SEC. The SEC is almost always represented well every college football season. With that said, ESPN expects Texas to be the conference's No.