2025 Preseason 1-136 Rankings

Throughout my season preview content, I’ve given my model’s thoughts on each of the 136 FBS teams. However, in the process of creating my model, I often come to different conclusions about teams than the numbers do. For example, there are some things I think the model is way too low on (Western Kentucky, Southern Miss, Iowa etc.) and others it is way too high on (Maryland, Cincinnati, UCF etc.).

I think it is a valuable exercise to go through and rank all teams from 1-136 in the preseason based on my gut intuition. At the end of the season, I will compare this with my model’s preseason 1-136 and see who won.

Unfortunately, I ran out of time before the season started and don’t have time to write a bit about each of the 136 FBS teams. I wrote a blurb for each of the P4 teams that you can find in the preseason conference previews. Regardless, without further ado, here is my personal 1-136, just based off of my personal read of each team.