Indiana football wants to stake a claim as the best team in college football. There's an issue with a team in its own conference.

Alabama replaces Miami as a top-four seed in the College Football Playoff based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday and Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and BYU are on the mock bracket for the first time. Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M and Alabama would be the top four seeds as the Nos. 1-4 teams in the AP poll.

A college football season never goes to plan. There are always unexpected results. A look at the surprises at the biggest halfway mark of the year.

Projecting the College Football Playoff and bowl matchups after the seventh week of the 2025 college football season

Alabama's Ty Simpson edged out Indiana's Fernando Mendoza for first-team quarterback on The Associated Press midseason All-America team.

Indiana and Ohio State look like the class of college football after Week 8, so it's no surprise they lead our College Football Playoff projection.

As far as eye test and game control are concerned, the Buckeyes have been superb this season. With victories over then-No. 1 Texas and a splattering of No. 17 Illinois over the weekend, Ohio State has accomplished its mission of domination over its first six games. The rest of the schedule should be a breeze before the trip to Michigan.

Another week of the 2025 Indiana high school football season has come and gone, and High School On SI has all of the latest computer rankings for each classification as of October 20, 2025.High School On SI's formula was created using its own linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method.