"You could say that Saturday brings the first act of the 2025 college football season to a close. Next week, we'll get a couple of mammoth helmet games -- Oregon at Penn State, Alabama at Georgia -- and conference play will be fully underway. We'll head into October talking a lot about playoff implications and the hierarchy among the sport's top teams."
"We get another week to figure out which of a large group of hyped-but-struggling quarterbacks -- Texas' Arch Manning, Clemson's Cade Klubnik, Florida's DJ Lagway, LSU's Garrett Nussmeier -- will steer out of a current skid. We get a huge Illinois-Indiana game (just an amazing combination of words there). We get a matchup of two of the Big 12's best and meanest teams to date (Texas Tech at Utah)."
"At the start of the college football season, 11 teams had at least a 2% chance of winning the national title, per the Allstate Playoff Predictor. Three weeks in, there are 13. Nothing has been even slightly decided through three weeks, and the door for chaos could open even further this weekend. Before we get to the second act of 2025, here's everything you need to follow in a loaded Week 4."
Saturday closes the first act of the 2025 college football season. Next week features mammoth helmet games Oregon at Penn State and Alabama at Georgia as conference play begins. A cluster of hyped quarterbacks -- Texas' Arch Manning, Clemson's Cade Klubnik, Florida's DJ Lagway, LSU's Garrett Nussmeier -- are in early-season slumps that need correction. Key matchups include Illinois at Indiana, Texas Tech at Utah, and Jackson Arnold with Auburn at Oklahoma in a battle of SEC unbeatens. Group of 5 teams such as Memphis, Tulane, UNLV, North Texas and Boise State face high-profile road tests. The Allstate Playoff Predictor showed 11 teams with at least 2% title chances at the season start; three weeks in that number rose to 13, underscoring volatility. Among the preseason SP+ top nine, six remain and the other three (Texas, Notre Dame, Michigan) have not collapsed.
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