College football coaches, players and fans get their first whiff of the 2025 season during spring practices, which are underway or coming soon to campuses around the country. Programs are allowed to conduct 15 on-field practice sessions over a 34-day period.

Everything you know about college spring football, including storylines, schedules and extended reading from around the nation.

College football spring games are starting to become a thing of the past. For now, many programs around the nation will still hold a traditional showcase to wrap their spring practice slates, but there is a growing list of prominent schools that have decided to do away with the game day format in favor of different plans -- or,

Below is every preseason top-25 team's most important game of the 2025 college football season. Most important game: vs. Auburn, Sept. 20 There's going to be considerable griping in Norman if another SEC season for the Sooners starts with a loss at home. This would nullify any momentum gained by beating Michigan two weeks prior.

In Connelly's SP+ initial 2025 rankings released last month, Ohio State was the top-ranked team, followed by Alabama, Penn State, Georgia and Notre Dame in the top five. Connelly's SP+ projections weigh returning production, recent recruiting and recent history

We're less than two months removed from the longest college football season in history. Changes are coming to the sport we love, and none is more earth-shattering than the pending introduction of a revenue-sharing model with players that begins next fall.

Some talented quarterbacks could soon be looking for new opportunities if things don't go their way during spring practice.