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Based on ESPN’s projections, there’s at least a 75 percent chance that the top seven teams in college football will make the college football playoff, leaving just five spots up for grabs for the other 130-ish teams at the FBS level. Saturday’s action should decide a lot of these swings.
Also, if you haven’t checked in yet, YouTube TV and Disney’s beef hasn’t ended yet, which means that you’ll need to go through alternative sources to watch those games this weekend. ESPN, a Disney property, also has the Philadelphia Eagles-Green Bay Packers game on Monday night.
With that being said, let’s look at the top-25 matchups this week and their squads’ top players on the 2026 consensus draft board.
Texas Tech boosters, after covering the program’s new $242 million football facility, spent $49 million over a year on the roster. They very much are trying to microwave a playoff-contending football team, leading to them being aggressive in the portal. For example, their top player, future first-round pick David Bailey, came to the program by way of Stanford, while their second-best player, Romello Height, was poached from USC.
Jacob Rodriguez joined the team via Virginia, while Lee Hunter was added from UCF. Still, the Red Raiders have already dropped a game this year and are going through quarterback injury struggles. To ensure that the team makes the postseason, they’ll need to beat BYU in this one. If they drop this game, there’s no promise that they make the cut.
By the way, one of Tech’s big billionaire boosters, Cody Campbell, is one of the guys trying to stop spending on college athletics at the legislative level. Essentially, he’s trying to juice Tech and then slam the door behind him. Personally, it’s hard to root for a guy like that.
Speaking of oil money, Texas A&M has a pretty good roster this year. A player I would keep an eye on from a Packers perspective here is tackle Trey Zuhn III, who is expected to make the transition to the center position at the NFL level. This is a very weak center class, matching up poorly with Green Bay’s needs, but sources in the scouting world have told me to keep an...
