Buffalo Rumblings
It’s a full slate of college football for the first time in 2025 — a full weekend featuring the best of what the college landscape has to offer. Some teams choose to slow-roll their way to getting up and going for the season while others have certainly set themselves up with quite the challenge.
There are three matchups between top-10 teams on the docket. It’s a college football fan’s kickoff dream.
The biggest and best matchups get started on Saturday with No. 1 Texas traveling to No. 3 Ohio State for one of the best tilts to begin a season in recent memory. This is one to watch for NFL Draft fans and college football fanatics alike.
A primetime Saturday bout between the two Tiger schools who refer to their home turf as “Death Valley” are set to battle it out in No. 9 LSU and No. 4 Clemson. Both squads are loaded with talent and want their Death Valley bragging rights. LSU has struggled in recent years with season openers against big-time opponents while Clemson is coming off a season-opener beating against Georgia in 2024.
The Labor Day weekend allows us some Sunday college football as well. No. 6 Notre Dame goes down south to No. 10 Miami. It’s a matchup with plenty of history and will be a standalone to get eyes on with plenty of talent on the field.
The best of the best get it rolling for Week 1. There’s plenty to be mindful of with prospect matchups all over the place. Let us know who you’re watching in the comments below. Here are some player-on-player battles you need to be aware of heading into the weekend.
Two of the top quarterback prospects for the 2026 NFL Draft will have two massive opportunities for draft-stock purposes in their respective games. Manning is green when it comes to college starts. But the talent he shows is clearly special with everything you could ever want in a quarterback. His task won’t be easy against a Buckeyes defense that features star safety Caleb Downs and much more. This will be Manning’s toughest test in his third career start.
Nussmeier might be facing the best defense in the country on Saturday night with a very different looking offensive line in front of him in 2025. He’s one of the more calm, composed, and confident players in college football. He’s never seen a throwing window he can’t hit. He’s got a nice plethora of receiving weapons, but it won’t be smooth sledding against a Clemson defense that is stacked at all three levels. That starts with elite defensive tackle Peter Woods manning the middle of the defense and cornerback Avieon Terrell looking to compete to get the ball back for his offense.
This will be quite a fascinating matchup from a size comparison...
