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College football gets started with Week 0 on Saturday. How will the season unfold? We provide our record projections for all 136 teams.
CBS Sports HQ's "College Football Pregame," is coming to Tallahassee for Florida State football's week one kickoff against No. 8 Alabama.
The College Football Playoff announced that it will use an "enhanced" tool to further emphasize strength of schedule in its selection process, starting in 2025. The new metric -- titled record strength -- will give further credit to how a team performs against its schedule.
The Alabama Crimson Tide did not qualify for the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. They finished the season ranked No. 11 in the final CFP rankings. However, two conference champions were ranked below Alabama, which secured them automatic bids to the playoff. As a result, Alabama was the first team left out of contention.
Will Alabama contend for the national championship in 2025, or make the College Football Playoff? Joel Klatt gave his analysis of Kalen DeBoer's team.
As the 2025 college football season approaches, the quarterback dominoes are starting to fall. Most teams have wrapped their fall camp slates, or are nearing the end of their offseason practices ahead of game preparation,
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Roll Tide Wire on MSNCBS Sports makes 'bold prediction' for Alabama football in Year 2 under Kalen DeBoer
With the season kicking off in less than two weeks, it's the time of year when the sport's top "insiders" offer bold predictions for the season. CBS Sports' Chip Patterson did so with regard to Alabama: Patterson believes the Crimson Tide will win the SEC championship game on Dec. 6 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
ESPN’s Paul Finebaum has openly disagreed with the current rankings, particularly regarding the Buckeyes. On his show, “The Paul Finebaum Show,” he expressed that he does not believe they deserve to be ranked among the top three teams, despite being the reigning national champion.
From Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith to Texas’s Colin Simmons, here are our first- and second-team selections who should have major impacts in 2025.
Going into 2025, this group has a veteran trio of returning starters who will all be looking to break that mold and take the next step into becoming an elite unit. Behind them, there’s a lot of room for any of the young players to step up and become role players, as most all of the depth is still very inexperienced.