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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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Zach Koons

Ranking College Football’s 25 Players With the Most to Prove—and the Most to Gain

Every season, a crop of college football players enter the season with huge expectations and preseason hype. Sports Illustrated ranked the top 25 players who are exceptionally positioned to deliver when the stakes are the highest and whose performances will define the season. From proven quarterbacks to disruptive pass rushers to wreckers of defensive game plans, these athletes have the opportunity to rise above the rest and push their teams to success.

Dante Moore, Malachi Toney, Charlie Becker
Kevin D. Liles/Sports Illustrated (Moore); Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated (Toney); Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images (Becker)
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