College Football 2025 Season Preview: Dark Horses, Conference Winners, Win Totals, and Heisman Picks

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Our ENTIRE college football crew is here to give their favorite preseason bets for the 2025 college football season. Get the BEST win totals, championship winners, Heisman bets, and dark horses for this season! 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is here to win. Together. 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️MERCH • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! #SportsBetting #collegefootballbets #collegefootballpreview To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? Welcome to the Early Edge. It's time for our college football preview show. We got so many futures heading your way, including win totals, conference champions,
0:19.7	Chicago conference champions, Chicago conference champions,
0:19.0	natty champions, playoff spots, just so much coming your way. And we got to do it with, we're going on six wide folks. We got Chip Patterson. We got Zach Sidney, Tom Casale, McKenzie Brooks, Emery Hunt, lady and gentlemen, we've got so much to cover. I know some of you need to dip out earlier than others. so I'm going to skip over salutations.
0:39.7	Let me just say much to cover. I know some of you need to dip out earlier than others, so I'm going to skip over salutations.
0:41.4	Let me just say hi to somebody.
0:43.3	I always miss Chip Patterson.
0:48.0	Chip, cover three is coming to this show for this hour right now.
0:48.8	Chip, how are you doing today?
0:49.8	Oh, fantastic.
0:54.6	We actually were on CBS Sports Network a little bit earlier today being able to roll through.
0:55.8	You would like this, see ya.
0:59.4	Impact player draft non-quarterback edition.
1:04.1	Who are the biggest impact players in college football that are not quarterbacks,
1:08.7	able to give some shine to offensive linemen, defensive linemen, edge rushers,
1:09.9	defensive backs.
1:12.7	And of course, don't worry, Emery, we talked about Jeremiah Love. We talked about the running backs as well. So yeah, rocking and rolling, man, happy to be here with you. Yeah, I was going to say, it shouldn't be quarterbacks getting all the shine. We got to get the Emery hunts, the running backs, the offensive linemen, defense alignment, and getting the shine too. We got, Chip, we got you. We We got Zach Zimini again. Tom McKenzie, Emery. Let's get things started. Let's start with our
1:32.4	favorite win totals. Emery, I'm going to start with you. What's your favorite win total for the
1:36.4	college football season? The only really future I care about is Louisiana going over seven
1:41.5	and a half wins guys. I think people underestimate how good we recruit down that way, right?
1:47.7	Every year we're talking about a Louisiana offensive lineman or point of attack player
1:51.3	with this year.
1:51.9	That's the case with Jordan Lawson on the defense side.
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