It has been a long slog of an offseason filled with numerous off-the-field storylines, but college football has officially returned just as the temperatures outside have started to cool down. We received only a small sampler during Week Zero action, but it won’t be long before the main course gets served in the run up to Labor Day and we can finally say college football is fully back.
Sports Illustrated has spent much of the past few months talking with coaches, players, athletic directors, commissioners, agents, general managers and more as part of our comprehensive 2025 preview of the sport, and the one thing that is striking is how little they all know about their teams. That wasn’t the case 20, 10 or even five years ago—everybody at least had an inkling.
