USA Today 2025 CFB Playoff Projections

[Tanko]

Well this is interesting. I guess USA Today decided to try and get some discussion started because this seems waaay to early to be trying to publish this list....

12 team playoff projection for next year:

1. Penn St.
2. Georgia
3. Clemson
4. Kansas St.
5. Ohio St.
6. Texas
7. LSU
8. Oregon
9. Oklahoma
10. Brigham Young
11. Illinoise
12. Boise St.

Penn State leads College Football Playoff projection for 2025 with LSU, Oklahoma among SEC surprises

Forget about way-too-early Top 25 rankings. Here's your College Football Playoff projection for the 2025 season -- with a few surprises.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Tanko]

Shocking to see Kansas St. in the top 5 after the poor performance by the entire conference in 2024.

 

[jjgold]

Lol

 

[BMR Genie]

Shocking to see Kansas St. in the top 5 after the poor performance by the entire conference in 2024.

The writer might be a fan of this team.

 

[BMR Genie]

Too early to tell, but a good reference in the future.

 

[stormtrooper8]

Doubt any of the top 4 finishes ahead of Ohio State

Click bait

 

[Tanko]

I wouldn't attempt to guess who the final 12 would actually be at this point. Its impossible to tell how many will come from each conference. But, I think the best teams from each of the power 4 conferences will be from the following groups.

For each conference, I have listed them in the order of finishing based on my guess.

SEC Texas Georgia LSU Bama

B10 OSU Oregon Illinois PSU

ACC Clemson Miami SMU Louisville

B12 BYU Ariz St. Iowa St. Kansas St.

Indepen Notre Dame

 

[Tanko]

For the G5 team it might come from:
Boise St
Memphis
UNLV