{"id":312002,"date":"2025-08-23T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/312002\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:20:14","slug":"the-posts-2025-college-football-preseason-top-25-playoff-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/312002\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post&#8217;s 2025 college football preseason Top 25, playoff picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first year of the expanded College Football Playoff produced a national champion (Ohio State) that wouldn\u2019t have qualified under the old format, the top four seeds all falling in the quarterfinals and the two semifinals contests giving us ample drama.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, there is no clear-cut favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Preseason No. 1 Texas has a new starting quarterback you may have heard of: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/22\/sports\/alabama-tried-using-steve-sarkisians-alcoholic-past-to-lure-arch-manning-away-from-texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arch Manning<\/a>, nephew of Eli and Peyton.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Ohio State remains loaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first year of the expanded College Football Playoff produced a national champion (Ohio State) that wouldn\u2019t have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[843,331,30686,7,69,2743,9,3248,1078],"class_list":{"0":"post-312002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-clemson-tigers","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-college-football-preview","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","13":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115079939759113027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}