As Kansas State and the rest of college football fans wait for next season to start, they can only anticipate how their teams will fare in about seven months. W

The difference between these predictions and the top-25 ranking is that the bracket predictions more heavily weigh the future games to be played on the field, predicting the outcome. That said, let's take a look at the first bracket projection for the 2025 season.

Will Howard, Jim Knowles and Al Golden are just some of the ties the College Football Playoff National Championship has to.

Vanderbilt gets a spot in the top 25 with quarterback Diego Pavia returning while the final top 25 spot goes to Navy. The Midshipmen return quarterback Blake Horvath and should be the favorite in the American and one of the non-ACC, Big 12, Big Ten or SEC playoff spots.

Kansas State moved on from its quarterback and it created the story of Will Howard's run with Ohio State to College Football Playoff title game.

Stories that make up Ohio State’s perplexing run to the College Football Playoff national ... to like about rising sophomore quarterback Avery Johnson, and there was little doubt where the ...