by Harry Gagnon
Friday, Oct 24, 2025Who is going to be the "natty" in college football in the 2025-26 season ? Well, I guess we should start with the current national champs, The Ohio St Buckeyes. Ohio State's odds are currently at +260 and their QB Julian Sayin is catching fire at the right time (I'm just saying). Sayin completing an incredible 80% of his passes and at Camp Randall in Madison last week he was 36 of 42 , almost 400 yards a 4TD's. He's been great, but the main reason the Buckeyes are the favorite to repeat is their stifling defense. Brian Day's defense is rewriting the history books with 2 shutouts and holding teams to under 10 points 6 times this year. So, yes the Buckeyes as of now deserve to be the favorite, but the Alabama Crimson Tide is breathing down their necks at +650. QB Ty Simpson is right there in the Heisman race and his 20 total TD's and 71% completion percentage will lead 'Bama to the SEC title game and possibly even more for him and head coach Kalen DeBoer.
At 8/1 is the extremely interesting Indiana Hoosiers and their sensational transfer QB Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza has his squad undefeated after taking care of Oregon who currently is 9/1 in Eugene 2 weeks ago. Mendoza has 23 TD's, just 2 picks and his top 2 WR's have over 1200 yards combined. This Hoosiers team is dangerous because they can beat you with their offense or their defense that kept the Ducks offense in check, plus the rest of their schedule is easy if you consider the collapse of Penn St.
The 2 teams at 11/1 I'm not sold on. Texas A&M are favored in LSU this week despite giving up 42 points to a 2-5 Arkansas team and Notre Dame still have those 2 losses to start the season that might come back to haunt them (it is Halloween in a week, get it -haunt them, anyways lets get back to the teams that can win the title).
Next up is a couple of southern schools in Georgia 12/1 and Miami 7/1. If the Bulldogs can make a run to the SEC Title game that could certainly help their ranking order for the playoffs, meanwhile (I had a feeling it was a matter of time) Carson Beck had a brutal game against Louisville 100/1 with 4 picks and I'm not backing Beck based on that and his history as a Georgia Bulldog.
The ACC can be proud of the Cardinals who like I said shocked the Hurricanes but they still have Clemson and have to go to SMU on their schedule. Georgia Tech is 120/1 and are undefeated because of QB Haynes King. King's numbers are not great , but regardless he and the Yellow Jackets should not be taken lightly.
The best of the rest are Vanderbilt at 40/1 who will have to overcome the earlier loss they suffered to Alabama, BYU at 180/1 who had a huge victory in 'The Holy War' last week, but 3 of their last 4 wins have been one score games and play Iowa St/Texas Tech in their next 2 games. As of now my title game is the Buckeyes versus 'Bama but who knows what happens in this 12 team playoff when the dust clears.
At 8/1 is the extremely interesting Indiana Hoosiers and their sensational transfer QB Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza has his squad undefeated after taking care of Oregon who currently is 9/1 in Eugene 2 weeks ago. Mendoza has 23 TD's, just 2 picks and his top 2 WR's have over 1200 yards combined. This Hoosiers team is dangerous because they can beat you with their offense or their defense that kept the Ducks offense in check, plus the rest of their schedule is easy if you consider the collapse of Penn St.
The 2 teams at 11/1 I'm not sold on. Texas A&M are favored in LSU this week despite giving up 42 points to a 2-5 Arkansas team and Notre Dame still have those 2 losses to start the season that might come back to haunt them (it is Halloween in a week, get it -haunt them, anyways lets get back to the teams that can win the title).
Next up is a couple of southern schools in Georgia 12/1 and Miami 7/1. If the Bulldogs can make a run to the SEC Title game that could certainly help their ranking order for the playoffs, meanwhile (I had a feeling it was a matter of time) Carson Beck had a brutal game against Louisville 100/1 with 4 picks and I'm not backing Beck based on that and his history as a Georgia Bulldog.
The ACC can be proud of the Cardinals who like I said shocked the Hurricanes but they still have Clemson and have to go to SMU on their schedule. Georgia Tech is 120/1 and are undefeated because of QB Haynes King. King's numbers are not great , but regardless he and the Yellow Jackets should not be taken lightly.
The best of the rest are Vanderbilt at 40/1 who will have to overcome the earlier loss they suffered to Alabama, BYU at 180/1 who had a huge victory in 'The Holy War' last week, but 3 of their last 4 wins have been one score games and play Iowa St/Texas Tech in their next 2 games. As of now my title game is the Buckeyes versus 'Bama but who knows what happens in this 12 team playoff when the dust clears.
