ESPN's Top 25 Heading Into The National Championship Game
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The 2025-26 College Football Playoff national championship game is officially set for next week.
Indiana, the No. 1 overall seed in the College Football Playoff, will be taking on No. 10 seed Miami. The Hoosiers topped Oregon in blowout fashion at the College Football Playoff at the Peach Bowl. Meanwhile, Ole Miss fell to Miami in the College Football Playoff at the Fiesta Bowl.
A week from Monday night, the two schools will do battle in the College Football Playoff national championship game in Miami, Florida.
Who will emerge with the win?
ESPN's computer model, the Football Power Index, has updated its Top 25 rankings heading into the final game of the season.
The final in-season Top 25 from ESPN's computer model.
ESPN's final Top 25 rankings
- Indiana
- Ohio State
- Notre Dame
- Oregon
- Miami
- Texas Tech
- Georgia
- Utah
- Ole Miss
- Alabama
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- USC
- Vanderbilt
- Penn State
- Oklahoma
- Iowa
- BYU
- Tennessee
- Michigan
- Washington
- Missouri
- SMU
- Auburn
- South Florida
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