College Football Strangely Specific Forecasts for 2025: Arch Manning and Texas go to the end – The Athletic

College football has become too easy to predict.

For me anyway.

Not only did I correctly predict that the Ohio state won the National Championship five months before it happened, but I also predicted that Travis Hunter would win the Hayesman trophy when the two -way star in Colorado still shot 50 to 1.

No, not all my strangely specific forecasts came true. Utah did not come close to winning the big 12, Miami did not win the ACC, and Florida did not come anywhere near the football playoff of the 12-team college. But my record of the 99-47 season winners was still quite good.

So, as this has become too easy, I raise ante. I’m calling my photos in February, so this time I can look really stupid. Instead of boring you with some ridiculous overall review or very early charts of the top 25, I choose a game a week to explain how everything will decrease.

A fair warning: I will write another one in August after the top 25 came out and the whole movement ends in April (there is another window on the transfer portal). But consider this my first round of darts.

Week 0: Iowa State against Kansas State (in Ireland)

The big 12 – the most difficult Power 4 conference for forecasting – can be won by one of those teams that will probably be in the pre -season top 25. Here is one thing you should definitely know about the big 12: The Sander Sanders is gone, But a bunch of a bunch of a bunch but a bunch of a bunch of, but a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of the best start discounts in the league are back , including Rocco Becht of Iowa and Avery Johnson of Kansas.

Sam Levitt of Arizona is the best and he will win an invitation for the Haisman ceremony next season, after wearing more than weight in Kenny Dillham’s crime with Kam Skatebo. I currently have a state in Arizona to beat the defensive Byu to repeat as the Big 12 Champions.

But to go back to the first farmageddon on a foreign soil, lEt’s Roll with Iowa State. The cyclones won 11 games for the first time in the history of the school, and Becht still has a weapon around it.

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Week 1: Notre Dame in Miami

Texas, who visits Ohio State, is obviously where ESPN’s Gamedeay College will be in Week 1. We also convey a potential match from Clemson and LSU’s top 10 because we will reach each of them for a while. But Notre Dame-Mayami in southern Florida on Sunday night is still a huge game.

Marcus Freeman’s team will have a new starting defender and a new defense coordinator, debuting against an always -hip team in Miami with a new starting defender and a new defense coordinator. Will Notre Dame return to the national game for the title in 2025? No. But I think the hurricanes play eight home games this season-and the Irish will enter the 12-football playoff after epic-opening weekend, which ends with Carson Beck from Miami, who surpassed CJ Carr and Jeremiyah Love.

Week 2: Michigan in Oklahoma

You will not find a larger match of the slate brand than this week 2. The hot question here is if the high-paid freshman Brace Underwood will be Michigan’s initial defender at this point and if he is ready to surpass Washington state in Washington in the state This moment Transfer John Matery. I bet the answer is no.

Veteran transfer mothers Keen will win the work and opening against New Mexico, and then give way to Underwood with relief, as Mateer raises a huge victory for Brent Venables and SEC Returning! However, none of these teams make a playoff with 12 teams.

Week 3: Georgia in Tennessee

So, how many teams will enter CFP? My educated assumption is four. You would think that Bulldogs and Volunteers will have to be loved after they made the pitch last season. But it feels like a much wider open SEC race a year ago, when I properly predicted the Georgia Texas championship in Atlanta.

The bottom line here is that I do not believe that none of these programs will get the type of player’s game he needs to get to the SEC title game, and only one of them will make the playoff field in 2025 D. This is the winner of this meeting: Georgia.

Week 4: Illinois in Indiana

Curt Cignetti deserves to win the National Coach of the Year Award in 2024 and I fully expect his Husirs to stay in the playoff discussion for years to come, including this fall, when Fernando Mendosa took over to a defender.

The problem with Indiana is that there are road games in Oregon and Pen State in 2025. Both programs will always have more talents than what Cignetti can build in Bloomington. In fact, I’m not even sure that Indiana can win this expense with the Brett Bilema team, which has been coming out of her first season of 10 profits from 2001 and has many pieces back. Either way, the big ten gets only three teams in the field this time. Not four.

Week 5: Oregon in Pen State

Yes, I have Oregon and Pen State in my early field from the 12th team. The loss of blowing ducks from Ohio in Rose Bowl was difficult to swallow after the 13-0 season and the Big Ten Championship. But Dan Lanning and Phil Knight are picking their asses. Oregon doesn’t go anywhere. This trip to Beaver Stadium is very likely the only game in a regular season where ducks will not be preferred to win.

Meanwhile, Penn State is much more intriguing case after reaching the semifinals last season. The return of Drew Allar, Kaitron Alan and Nicholas Singleton will help you return them to the playoff photo. But do not underestimate the loss of Abdul Carter, Tyler Warren and a change in the defense coordinator. I think Oregon wins this top five.

Week 6: Texas in Florida

Arch Manning vs DJ Lagway. Aunt! Well, so this game may not be as sexy as Florida has already played in LSU and Miami, and Texas will open the Columbus season against the defense national champions. But we will still be very excited when we see two potential choices from the first round each other.

The question for me is if Florida’s protection will be good enough to support Lagway and put this team able to make CFP. However, Gators will be very dangerous in insult. It’s just not good enough to beat Texas and our next Hayysman winner this day.

Week 7: South Carolina in LSU

Talking about the contenders for Haisman, the teams that spend a lot of money on their lists and coaches facing heat: LSU and Brian Kelly used the transfer portal to bypass Gareth Nusmeier with a team that is more than capable of winning SEC. The question is whether the offensive and defensive lines are good enough to navigate the difficult schedule of 2025.

Meanwhile, Shane Beimer’s team will receive many pre -season over after their strong final to the 2024 season. But Gamecocks have lost a lot of talent in defense. I have LSU to win this game and eventually get to the game for the title of SEC.

Week 8: SMU in Clemson

This ACC revenge will tell us much more about SMU than to protect the Clemson League Champion. Rhett Lashlee can train, and he pulled everything that could come out of the defender Kevin Jennings last season to produce a season with 11 profits and a trip to the playoff. But the mustard lost many horses and I just don’t see how they reproduce what they have achieved last fall.

Meanwhile, Clemson should be repeated as ACC champions behind Cade Klubnik. I have the tigers that beat Miami in Charlotte in December.

Week 9: Colorado in Utah

How good are the Prime and Buffaloes coaches after losing two of the best players in the country? This is a valid question.

We need to know at the time Colorado visits Salt Lake City at the end of October, how many hunter and Shed Sanders are missed. I think the supporters will miss a lot on their way to 7-5 records.

Week 10: The State Penn in the State of Ohio

No, I don’t choose Pen State to win this game. And, yes, I fully expect the Ohio State to remain threatened to win the national title, although he lost a bunch of coaches and talent to other programs and NFL. The main reasons are the Hayysman finalist, who must be Jeremiah Smith and All-America Caleb Downs. But this is also because Ryan Day can train and knows how to hire.

Week 11: LSU in Alabama

So far, we have not mentioned a muddy deboir and alabama for a reason (you will notice that Ole Miss has not been brought up here). I don’t think Crimson Tide will be very good. Replacing Jalen Milroe is a headache, but the bottom line is that things are different in tuscaloosa without Nick Saban around.

I have Alabama to lose to Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina before this very important home game for DEBOER’s reputation. LSU will be too much.

Week 12: Texas in Georgia

I will keep this short and sweet: this rematch of last year’s SEC championship will be the best distance and will return to Texas back to Atlanta and Championship in the League and Manning to the Heisman trophy.

Georgia will still make the playoff field as Seed 8 (host Notre Dame in Athens). In the end, I have Georgia to lose a playoff rematch with Longhorns, whom I got everything.

Week 13: Tennessee in Florida

Do you know who else I have in the playoff balloon? Florida with three losses.

After losing from LSU, Miami and Texas, Gators, who Gators are spinning their season in Texas A&M, they defeated Georgia and hit the field on the pitch with their fourth top 25 victory for the season against volunteers.

Week 14: Ohio State in Michigan

So, will he avenge a day against Michigan? Will the bouquets flag in Ann Arbor plant?

No. Underwood will set a tone for 2026 and a possible return to the Wolverines playoff with another huge disorder that prevents bouquets from completing unbeaten. But Ohio won his first Big Ten title in 2020 and returns it to the national semifinals before losing to LSU.

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