In this week's "Polling Place," we also posed questions about Cubs manager Craig Counsell and White Sox rookie Colson Montgomery.

The Auburn Tigers will begin the 2025 season in the "receiving votes" category of the US LBM Coaches Poll by earning 50 votes. This season, the Tigers will face three teams ranked in the top-25: Alabama, Georgia, and Texas A&M, and will face eight teams that are receiving recognition from the preseason poll.

Marietta College was selected to finish third in the Ohio Athletic Conference Football Preseason Coaches Poll released Friday afternoon by the league office. The Pioneers posted an 8-3 record last fall and finished with a 7-2 OAC record.

Close enough to have the preseason coaches poll out, and Notre Dame ranks fifth in the initial rankings. Is it too high? Is it too low? And honestly, in the College Football Playoff era, do preseason rankings even matter?

With seven schools in the GAC, Rogers State had four of the first-place votes in the poll, while Fort Hays State received the other three. Southern Nazarene and Newman were the next two picks in the poll. All four schools made up the GAC Tournament field last year, which FHSU won.

Texas will begin the season ranked No. 1 in the Coaches Poll and AP Poll for the first time in school history. Fortunately for the Longhorns, head coach Steve Sarkisian doesn’t pay much attention to the rankings and understands how important it is for his team to go out and prove it each and every week.

With the 2025 college football season nearly underway, the various polls to determine the top 25 rankings began releasing the season's first issue earlier in th

College football is nearly here. Here's a look at where Big Ten teams landed in the preseason Coaches Poll and AP Top 25 poll.

At the annual high school football media days, we asked Gainesville-area coaches which player keeps them up into the wee hours of the morning? Here are their answers.