You could say that Saturday brings the first act of the 2025 college football season to a close.

Next week, we'll get a couple of mammoth helmet games -- Oregon at Penn State, Alabama at Georgia -- and conference play will be fully underway. We'll head into October talking a lot about playoff implications and the hierarchy among the sport's top teams.

First, however, we have to tie up some loose ends. We get another week to figure out which of a large group of hyped-but-struggling quarterbacks -- Texas' Arch Manning , Clemson's Cade Klubnik , Florida's DJ Lagway , LSU's Garrett Nussmeier -- will steer out of a current skid. We get a huge Illinois-Indiana game (just an amazing combination of words there). We get a matchup of two of the Big 12's best and meanest teams to date (Texa

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