Jokes aside, the college football crew is excited to bring you a weekly Top 25 throughout the 2025 season. Our familiar cast of characters—David Kenyon, Adam Kramer, Joel Reuter and Brad Shepard—each submitted a ballot. A first-place vote was worth 25 points, 24 for second place and so on.

This article was originally published on www.si.com as Sports Illustrated’s College Football Preseason Top 25: No. 5 Notre Dame. Through Aug. 22, Sports Illustrated will count down its preseason college football Top 25 with overviews of each team. Here are the full rankings so far.

It's August and no games have been played, but that's not keeping ESPN's college football reporters from predicting the 12 schools that will make up the College Football Playoff beginning in December.