The 2025 college football landscape was bound to be shaken up due to several high-profile Week 1 matchups, but few saw Florida State handling No. 8 Alabama so easily while No. 1 Texas struggled to move the ball against a tough No. 3 Ohio State defense. Texas entered the season at No. 1 in SportsLine college football expert Thomas Casale's power ratings.
Casale ranks the top 20 teams every week from a betting perspective and assigns them to tiers. He then presents a hypothetical line should a team from a lower tier match up with a team in Tier 1 on a neutral field to assess how far the gap is between those schools. Find Casale in the SportsLine college football Discord channel or on X at @TheTomCasale to let him know if you agree or disagree with the rankings.
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