Joel Klatt’s Post-Spring Top 25 for the 2025 Season

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

With Spring Practice and the Transfer Portal window now in the past, Fox Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt ranks his Post-Spring Top 25 for the upcoming season. He reveals his #1 team and breaks down how he made his choice out of teams like the defending National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes, an Arch Manning-led Texas Longhorns team and a Penn State squad returning loads of talent on both sides of the ball. He explains how he separated SEC teams like Alabama, Georgia and LSU and includes a surprise pick in his Top 10 that he feels could be this season’s Indiana on the way to a Playoff run. Klatt explains why he has confidence in Michigan this season despite the high-end talent that they lost off of last year’s roster. He also finds a place for Oklahoma in his Top 25 after the Sooners made some offseason additions that will instantly improve Brent Venables’ group. Chapters: 0:00-1:10 Intro1:11-2:33 Joel Klatt’s way too early top 252:34-4:08 Oklahoma Sooners4:09-5:14 Baylor Bears5:15-8:11 Iowa Hawkeyes8:12-9:00 Auburn Tigers9:01-10:33 Indiana Hoosiers10:34-11:20 Ole Miss Rebels11:21-13:06 Texas A&M Aggies13:07-14:49 Miami Hurricanes14:50-16:14 Iowa State Cyclones16:15-16:59 Kansas State Wildcats17:00-19:02 Arizona State Sun Devils19:03-20:14 BYU Cougars20:15-21:34 Florida Gators21:35-24:12 Michigan Wolverines24:13-25:18 South Carolina Gamecocks25:19-27:07 Illinois Fighting Illini27:08-28:56 Alabama Crimson Tide28:57-31:28 Georgia Bulldogs31:29-33:40 LSU Tigers33:41-36:22 Notre Dame Fighting Irish36:23-39:13 Clemson Tigers39:14-41:07 Oregon Ducks41:08-43:18 Ohio State Buckeyes43:19-45:10 Texas Longhorns45:11-51:18 Penn State Nittany Lions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	They could be the non-traditional power from the Big Ten that makes the playoff.
0:03.0	I really believe that.
0:04.0	I think Davosweeney is going to have a group that is capable of winning the national championship.
0:09.2	I believe he is going to be my Heisman frontrunner to begin the year.
0:13.3	You don't have to ask if Texas is back.
0:15.1	They are absolutely back.
0:16.2	They've been in the national semifinals in two straight years.
0:18.9	College football has never been better.
0:20.3	Interest has never been higher.
0:21.6	Believe that we are at the dawn of the golden age of college football.
0:30.8	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:33.0	Looking forward to this show.
0:34.4	This is the Joel Clatt show.
0:35.7	I am Joel Clat.
0:36.4	This show, as always, is brought to you by Hampton, by Hilton. We thank them for their support. I cannot wait.
0:42.2	We have got a huge episode of the Joel Clad Show. This is the post-spring, post-spring transfer portal,
0:49.6	post-draft, way too early, top 25 for next fall for college football. That's right, right here.
0:56.8	I got them. I got my top 25. As I see it right now as we're heading into May,
1:01.4	and I can't wait because as I start looking at the rosters and the schedules and everything
1:07.4	going on next year, now that we finally know kind of what these rosters are going to look like,
1:11.9	listen, it's chaotic.
1:12.9	We know that the transfer portal is chaotic,
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