Composite college football top 25 rankings for 2025: Texas, Ohio State lead Way-Too-Early lists | Sporting News

The Way-Too-Early Top 25 lists are out in full force to preview the first look at the 2025 College Football Season, and the Arch Manning effect is real.

Texas is No.

1 in a composite Way-Too-Early Top 25 made up of 12 college football publications.

Sporting News released its Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2024 , but we also looked at other sites to see how their rankings looked.

That list includes 247Sports.com , Action Network , Athlon , The Athletic , Bleacher Report , CBS Sports , ESPN , Sports Illustrated , USA Today Yahoo Sports and On3.com .

The Longhorns had the highest composite ranking among those sites, followed by Ohio State at No.

2.

The Buckeyes won the first 12-team College Football Playoff championship with a 34-23 victory against Notre Dame on Monday.

Texas and Ohio State meet at Ohio Stadium in the season opener on Aug.

30 in what likely will be a No.

1 vs.

No.

2 showdown.

BENDER: Ryan Day completes his redemption with title run Six of the publications had the Longhorns at No.

1.

Four had the Buckeyes at No.

1.

Penn State was No.

3 and had one first-place vote.

Georgia was No.

4 and one first-place vote.

Oregon rounds out the top five at No.

5.

We used an inverse scoring method (awarding 25 points to a No.

1 selection, 24 for a No.

2 selection, all the way down to one point for a No.

25 selection) to determine the highest possible score for each school.

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Here is each school with the total points scored and their high and low ranking: RANK SCHOOL TOTAL HIGH LOW 1 Texas 266 1 5 2 Ohio State 261 1 6 3 Penn State 247 1 5 4 Georgia 244 1 7 5 Notre Dame 224 3 8 6 Oregon 219 3 8 7 Clemson 210 5 10 8 LSU 180 4 22 9 Alabama 169 3 23 10 Tennessee 163 7 19 11 Miami 155 3 23 12 South Carolina 149 8 16 13 Arizona State 143 9 17 14 Illinois 127 7 24 15 Florida 124 9 21 16 BYU 113 9 NR 17 SMU 91 10 NR 18 Kansas State 75 15 NR 19 Michigan 68 12 NR 20 Ole Miss 62 10 NR 21 Indiana 53 16 NR 22 Iowa State 52 11 NR 23 Texas A&M 38 17 NR 24 Louisville 32 17 NR 25 Missouri 20 19 NR Composite Top 25 rankings by site A look at those Way Too Early Top 25 rankings shook out by each site: SCHOOL SN 24/7 ACTION ATHLON T-ATH B/R CBS ESPN S/I USA Y! ON3 Texas 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 5 1 Ohio State 2 3 1 1 6 2 4 1 2 1 2 2 Georgia 3 2 4 3 7 3 2 5 7 5 1 6 Penn State 4 4 3 4 1 4 5 3 3 4 4 4 Oregon 5 5 6 6 8 5 7 6 5 11 3 3 Notre Dame 6 7 7 5 3 6 6 4 4 8 6 5 Clemson 7 6 8 7 5 7 8 7 6 7 8 10 Alabama 8 8 23 10 14 8 14 12 8 3 9 14 LSU 9 12 5 9 4 10 10 8 11 6 22 15 Miami 10 14 10 8 15 11 3 23 10 16 11 21 Florida 11 13 15 14 11 13 18 18 16 12 21 9 Tennessee 12 9 9 11 13 12 9 19 13 9 7 13 Illinois 13 24 12 21 12 15 15 13 9 13 12 7 South Carolina 14 11 13 12 16 9 11 10 14 14 13 8 Arizona State 15 15 11 13 9 14 16 14 12 10 14 17 BYU 16 NR 14 16 10 22 13 9 15 17 15 16 Ole Miss 17 19 21 19 NR 20 17 25 NR 24 10 NR Michigan 18 16 17 22 18 18 NR 21 19 18 25 12 SMU 19 10 16 17 NR 17 12 15 18 19 NR 22 Indiana 20 23 NR 18 20 21 23 17 23 NR 16 23 Kansas State 21 17 18 15 23 16 NR 16 NR 15 18 20 Texas A&M 22 NR NR 20 17 24 22 22 NR NR 17 19 Louisville 23 NR 20 NR 22 NR NR 20 17 25 23 NR Iowa State 24 18 22 23 NR 19 19 11 NR 20 NR NR UNLV 25 NR NR NR NR NR 25 NR NR 23 NR NR Auburn NR 20 NR NR NR 25 NR NR 25 NR NR 11 Nebraska NR 21 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 22 NR 25 Texas Tech NR 22 NR NR NR NR 24 NR 22 NR NR NR Okalhoma NR 25 NR NR 25 23 NR NR NR NR NR 18 Missouri NR NR 19 25 NR NR 20 NR NR NR 20 NR Kansas NR NR 24 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Navy NR NR 25 NR 24 NR NR NR 24 21 NR NR Boise State NR NR NR 24 21 NR NR 24 NR NR 19 NR Baylor NR NR NR NR 19 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Georgia Tech NR NR NR NR NR NR 21 NR 20 NR NR 24 North Carolina NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 21 NR NR NR Iowa NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 24 NR.

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