The SEC is moving from eight conferences games to nine. Here's what that means for the future of the College Football Playoff and for Ohio State.

Texas opens at Ohio State in Week as a +2.5 point underdog and in October, the Longhorns do not play a home game. Texas goes to Florida, who is off a bye week, then to Dallas for the red river rivalry with Oklahoma, a trip to Kentucky who is off a bye, and to Mississippi State to end the month.

Purdue ranked last in the Big Ten, spending $31.4 million on football in 2024. Ohio State was third, followed by Michigan ($72.4 million) and Penn State ($64.5 million). Those rankings don’t include the conference’s two private schools, USC and Northwestern, which are not required to report their data.

Ohio State will enter the 2025 college football season with high expectations, both internally and externally.

Texas isn't bringing famed live mascot Bevo, a 2,100-pound steer, to Ohio Stadium for its Aug. 30 opener against Buckeyes.

ESPN has used its computers to predict the probability of each game on the 2025 Ohio State football schedule. Here's how it all lays out.

The first year of the expanded College Football Playoff produced a national champion (Ohio State) that wouldn’t have qualified under the old format, the top four seeds all falling in the quarterfinals and the two semifinals contests giving us ample drama. A year later, there is no clear-cut favorite.