The Michigan football team is starting the season ranked No. 14 in the AP Poll, and it will make the College Football Playoff this season.

The first AP Top 25 college football poll of the season has been released. Let's see how all of the teams stack up.

The Texas Longhorns enter the 2025 season as the top team in the country. Led by Steve Sarkisian, the SEC newcomer looks to make waves with an expanded College Football Playoff

During her first year as a voter on the AP college football panel, Nicole Auerbach takes a deep dive into the thought process behind her ballot for the Top 25 college football preseason rankings.

As for right now, AP top 25 voters will punish the Nittany Lions for not living up to their potential as the No. 3 team, but may not be too harsh on their ballots, given recent precedent.

The preseason AP Top 25 is expected to confirm what the preseason Coaches poll did a week ago. The first blockbuster matchup of the 2025 college football season should pit No. 1 versus No. 2. Arch Manning and the Texas Longhorns were the top program in the Coaches poll. The Ohio State Buckeyes were right behind them at No. 2.

The preseason AP top 25 college football rankings are not known for their scientific rigor or their predictive power when it comes to the national championship,