As the 2025 recruiting cycle ends and the 12-team CFP era rolls on, here is a look at four teams that have improved their chances of securing a playoff spot, and, maybe winning it all, as long as their transfers contribute as expected and they get production from some youth in their current class of recruits.

National Signing Day opened on Wednesday. Here are the top team rankings of 2025 with college football's regular signing period open:

The final signing period came and went without much news, but it still was an active day for several programs. Michigan was able to ascend within the top 10 by adding five-star tackle Ty Haywood to a class that already featured No. 1 overall prospect quarterback Bryce Underwood.

College football's 2025 recruiting cycle is officially in the books. Here is a look at where some of the top recruits will be taking their talents.

More than 60 teams signed at least one blue-chip prospect in the 2025 recruiting class with 21 teams that surpassed double-digit blue-chip signees. All but three of those teams with at least 10 blue-chip signees this cycle are members of the Big Ten or SEC — a clear sign of the growing gap between the so-called 'Power 2' and the rest of the field.

Where things stand in the college football recruiting rankings as National Signing Day puts a bow on the 2025 cycle.

Here's a look at the 2025 recruiting class for Deion Sanders and Colorado football heading into National Signing Day:

Among the 32 five-star prospects in the 2025 class, most pledged to blue-blood programs. There are a few outliers, though, with Kansas State, Georgia Tech and Iowa among the programs to pick up some of the most prized prospects in their respective histories.

It's National Signing Day, so that means the Class of 2026 is next up. And the list of Colorado's top recruits has a distinct Fort Collins-area flair.