College Football HQ presents the ultimate rankings, counting down the best teams to ever take the field since the beginning.

One of those teams is Illinois, and there is good reason to see why. It finished with 10 wins for the first time since 2001, which culminated with Bret Bielema taking down Shane Beamer’s South Carolina Gamecocks in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl for its first postseason win in over a decade.

The sport of college football has produced its fair share of geniuses at the coaching level. Which are the most successful all-time?

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.

Members of the SEC and Big Ten look to exert their new power to expand college football's playoff system and get auto bids for themselves in the process.

In the last month since the confetti fell on Ohio State's national championship, the college football world has collectively turned its attention to the season ahead. The transfer portal activity has calmed,