The Playoff will weigh strength of schedule more heavily moving forward the selection committee announced days before the 2025 season

SportsLine expert Jimmie Kaylor has locked in his CFB futures picks and SEC over/under win totals best bets for the 2025 college football season

Take a look at what The Athletic foresees in Florida football's future heading into this fall, both overall and in the SEC.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/ucf as Scott Frost Sounds Off On Expanded College Football Playoff Discussions. It's a different College Football world from the one UCF coach Scott Frost left in 2022, even more so since he left UCF after the 2017 season.

Kalshi is currently offering a number of college football prediction markets ranging from conference champions to individual games.

SEC bias might be real, but it doesn't mean the conference will take over the CFP. Ohio State should be just as good as last year, if not even better.

“Saban retiring, in any era, was going to fundamentally impact the death grip the SEC had on college football,” Pate explained. “Because it wasn’t the SEC that had a death grip, it was Alabama, led by Nick Saban. Ten of the last 11 SEC Championships were either won by Bama or Georgia.”

Preseason projections have Texas among the national title favorites, but a panel of SEC experts flagged the Longhorns as the league’s most overrated team. CBS Sports’ SEC preview led with a blunt assessment.

Only three SEC teams made the College Football Playoff last year, but the conference is deep with contenders in 2025.