The 2025 college football season kicks off in Ireland with the Aer Lingus College Football Classic taking place this Saturday. Iowa State-Kansas State will play in this year's Aer Lingus College Football Classic, the first of five games taking place in Week 0, before the rest of college football springs into action the following week.

Somehow, my friends, we did it again. We managed to survive the cold, dreary weeks without any college football to watch on Saturdays.

Iowa's offensive line is led by a veteran center in Logan Jones who has cracked ESPN's top 100 college football players of 2025.

Piecing together a list of the best players in college football before the season begins is no easy task. It requires a mix of information, reporting and assumptions. While some choices are easy (Jeremiah Smith is good,

CLEVELAND, Ohio — College football’s biggest stars are back in the spotlight, and ESPN just dropped its Top 100 list for 2025 with Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith sitting proudly at No. 1. The sophomore sensation lit up the field in 2024,