Headed into the start of SEC spring meetings, the Big Ten believed it had a partner in its push to transform the College Football Playoff into something more akin to the NFL. The Big Ten and SEC have grown significantly closer over the last year,

Until now, the SEC was pushing the idea of giving itself four automatic qualifiers in any future College Football Playoff, but the sport’s most dominant confere

On this edition of " SEC Football Unfiltered ," a podcast from the USA TODAY Network, hosts Blake Toppmeyer and John Adams unpack the leading playoff formats under consideration. Here's what the hosts think of the top 16-team formats being debated: What it is: In this model,

Weeks away from the kickoff of the 2025 season, ESPN has revealed its official top 25 college football rankings, and as expected, it’s a lot of the SEC and Big Ten at the top of the preseason polls heading into the summer.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football enters the 2025 season as the defending champion, but ESPN’s College Football Power Index rankings don’t have the Buckeyes as the top-rated team. Instead, Texas sits at No. 1 with fellow SEC schools Georgia and Alabama to follow.

We've reached the first week of June, which means we're less than three full months away from the start of the 2025 college football season. Naturally, ESPN is looking to get out ahead in predicting the top teams of the new season.