The Athletic's Stewart Mandel is a preseason Penn State believer, placing the Nittany Lions atop his too-early top 25 for 2025. "I'm skeptical they can actually pull it off," Mandel writes, "but on paper, James Franklin's team deserves that status given how many players are returning."

Ohio State finished as the No. 1 team after defeating Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship

Sports ranked Penn State as the No. 4 team for next fall. The Nittany Lions were ranked behind newly crowned champions Ohio State, Texas and Alabama. The returning trio of Drew Allar, Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen seems to make a strong case that Penn State should be viewed as a team within college football’s upper echelon.

Penn State finished its historic 2024 season ranked among the best in college football. Penn State finished No. 5 in the final Associated Press top 25 poll of the season. The rankings were released on Tuesday morning,

The 2024 college football season officially came to an end on Monday night when Ohio State defeated Notre Dame in the national championship. After finishing 11-

Now that Ohio State has been crowned the first 12-team College Football Playoff national champion, let's take a look back at the preseason AP Top 25 Poll. It was never going to be perfect, but what did the Associated Press get the most wring and wrong?